Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System

Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System
Colin Yeo
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17 Mar 2022 UK
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9781785907364
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Britain thinks of itself as a welcoming country, but thereality has always been different. Migration is viewedbenevolently when hypothetical, but heaven forbidanyone should actually try to migrate here. NicholasWinton famously had to forge papers to smuggle Jewishchildren into Britain before the Second World War, andhostility to post-war Commonwealth immigration quicklyled to limits being imposed. New arrivals were not welltreated,and race equality legislation had to be imposedon a grudging populace. As if to prove little has changed, modern immigrationpolicy since 2010 has meant Britain has become a ' hostileenvironment' for migrants, particularly following theexposure of the Windrush scandal in 2018 and successiveTory governments' strategies to make staying in thecountry as difficult as possible for people, in the hope thatthey will just leave. In this innovative and alarming book, blogger andcampaigner Colin Yeo exposes the iniquities of an ugly,unfair and failing approach and offers a manifesto for anew immigration system that would roll back the hostileenvironment laws, consolidate immigration legislationand introduce a statutory time limit on immigrationdetention.
"Successive governments have allowed the UK' s immigration laws to become ever more incomprehensible and increasingly unfair, confident that few will understand what is happening and even fewer will care. Colin Yeo understands the law better than most and cares very much indeed. As well as providing a highly readable account of what the law is, he offers his own vision of what it should become. " - Joshua Rozenberg QC "An incisive and compelling analysis of how muddled political thinking has caused our immigration laws to go so badly wrong, and what must be done to reform them. Highly readable and cogently argued, a copy should be put on the desk of every tabloid editor and every MP. " - The Secret Barrister "Colin Yeo presents us with a forensic examination of the UK' s labyrinthine, costly and dehumanising immigration system - a must-read. " Maya Goodfellow, author of Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats "This is a brilliant and urgently necessary book. Colin Yeo writes piercingly about the chaotic cruelty of Britain' s immigration system and offers meticulously well-informed proposals for reform of the Home Office. He strips away with lawyerly precision the nonsense which informs so much of our toxic debate on immigration. Packed with chilling accounts of lives ripped up by the Home Office, this is an intensely disturbing read. " - Amelia Gentleman, journalist
Colin is a barrister, blogger, writer and campaigner based at Garden Court Chambers in London. He also edits the Free Movement website www. freemovement. org. uk. He worked for two charities assisting refugees and migrants before becoming a barrister and continues to act in all sorts of immigration cases, from asylum claims to family immigration and business work. He regularly assists journalists with immigration stories, has appeared on broadcast media on several occasions and has given evidence to parliamentary committees. A keen walker and occasional climber, he is based in Bristol in the United Kingdom.
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ISBN-13: 9781785907364
Published: 17 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Biteback Publishing
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384

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