From Immigration Controls to Welfare Controls

by Steve Cohen (Editor), Beth Humphries (Editor), Ed Mynott (Editor)

Overview

This edited collection addresses theoretical, political and practical aspects of the connection between external immigration controls and internal welfare controls. It considers the implications for the both those subject to controls and those drawn into the web of implementing internal welfare controls. Topics discussed include:
* forced dispersal of asylum seekers
* local authority and voluntary sector regulations
* nationalism, racism, class and 'fairness'
* strategies for resistance to controls
* USA controls.
The book provides support to those unwittingly drawn into administering controls, showing how the role of welfare workers as immigration control enforcers is not a sudden imposition but has exisited since the introduction of controls in 1905.
From Immigration Controls to Welfare Controls will provide a valuable resource for all those professionals who come into contact with the issues surrounding immigration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136401848
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/08/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Steve Cohen is former Co-ordinator of Greater Manchester Immigration Unit Beth Humphries is Reader in Social Work, Lancaster University Ed Mynott is Research Fellow, Centre for European Political Communications, Leeds University.

Table of Contents

Series editor’s preface; Chapter 1 Introduction, Ed Mynott, Beth Humphries, Steve Cohen; Part I Political, historical and international issues; Chapter 2 Nationalism, racism and immigration control, Ed Mynott; Chapter 3 From aliens to asylum seekers, Debra Hayes; Chapter 4 Immigration controls and class, Shirley Joshi; Chapter 5 Immigration and welfare reforms in the United States through the lens of mixed-status families, Wendy Zimmermann, Michael Fix; Part II Immigration and welfare: the contemporary issues; Chapter 6 Family life and the pursuit of immigration controls, Adele Jones; Chapter 7 From a shambles to a new aPart heid, Ed Mynott; Chapter 8 From welfare to authoritarianism, Beth Humphries; Chapter 9 Dining with the devil, Steve Cohen; Chapter 10 From safety net to exclusion, Terry Patterson; Part III From theory to resistance; Chapter 11 The 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act and how to challenge it, Alison Harvey; Chapter 12 Fair immigration controls — or none at all?, Beth Humphries; Chapter 13 In and against the state of immigration controls, Steve Cohen;