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(B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire by Nadine El-Enany
Rigorous exposé of the role of British law in perpetuating and obscuring colonial divisions

NADINE EL-ENANY’S argument in (B)ordering Britain is very simple. “Britain” is a storehouse of the stolen wealth of a global empire, to which the so-called native inhabitants have no exclusive right.

Thus its immigration laws constitute an act of ongoing colonial violence and irregularised “illegal” immigration is an act of anti-colonial resistance.

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