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- Africa
- borders in, 89, 101
- Agamben, Giorgio
- ‘bare life’ and immigration detention, 5, 186, 192, 203, 224
- camps, 82, 108, 212
- state of exception, 203
- agricultural workers, 128, 138
- Al-Jedda, 209
- Al-Kateb v Godwin, 172, 186, 205
- Ali (Iraq) v Serco Ltd, 76
- Aliens Act 1905 (UK), 31, 106, 113, 151
- Aliens Restriction (Amendment) Act 1919, 129
- ancestry visas, 60, 84–5, 161
- Arendt, Hannah
- ‘right to have rights’, 71, 98, 215
- asylum
- accommodation, 53, 76–7, 80, 148, 160, 172–3, 202–3
- age assessment of children, 171
- conflation with immigration and nationality, 4, 232
- deportation, 70–1, 75–6, 82–3, 120–1, 141–2, 149–50, 183–4, 201–5, 207–8
- detention, 75–6, 128–9, 149–51, 171–3,185–6, 202–5, 207
- externalisation of, 78, 114, 153
- Limbuela standard, 149
- reception conditions, 111
- safe third countries, 78–80, 114
- seekers
- UK–Rwanda plan, 79–80, 114
- Australia
- Biosecurity Act 2015, 197–8
- Djokovic visa cancellation, 199–200
- exclusion of own citizens, 85, 95, 208–9, 218, 224, 231
- strict Covid border regime, 6, 191, 195–6, 224
- ayahs (Indian nannies), 17, 24
- Bangladesh
- partition, 34, 44, 64, 82
- Begum, Shamima
- fair trial rights, 35, 212–3
- trafficking arguments, 139, 143, 145–6
- Bibby Stockholm barge, 203–4
- birthright citizenship (jus soli), 23, 62, 73–4, 93–7, 173–5, 223
- anchor babies, 74, 96, 175, 223
- Ireland and Northern Ireland, 94–6
- ‘border crossed us’ trope, 2, 228
- borders, externalisation of, 78, 114, 153
- British Empire. See also Empire
- dominions vs colonies, 21–2, 30
- role of law, 3–7, 17, 46–7, 51, 65, 77, 85, 87, 97, 125
- subjecthood, 5–6, 15, 18–22, 26, 31–3, 36–7, 39–44, 47–8, 218
- British Nationality Act 1948, 22, 43–4, 55–7, 60, 98, 101, 129, 162
- transformation of subjecthood, 5, 20
- British Nationality Act 1981, 43, 62, 85, 95, 101, 173–4, 178, 209–10
- Calcutta, 1, 18, 36–7, 44
- Calvin’s Case, 19–20
- Canada
- Komagata Maru, 27–30, 42, 48–9, 57, 63
- racialised immigration restrictions, 5, 30, 32, 48, 55, 85, 140, 148–9, 154, 188, 192, 231
- Caribbean, 23, 43, 52, 54, 57, 89
- care worker visa, 134, 167
- carrier sanctions, 25, 66, 151
- CEAS (Common European Asylum System), 111
- census, 179
- channel crossings, 78
- Chen case (Zhu and Chen), 94, 175
- Children Act 1989, 171, 177
- children
- best interests of, 177
- citizenship of, 93, 96, 104, 110, 168–9, 173–5
- fees for registration as citizens (PRCBC case), 173
- migrants, 93–4, 110, 154, 160, 168, 170–1, 173, 175, 178, 209
- citizenship
- as continuity from subjecthood, 22, 44–5, 56, 81
- conditional, 3, 43, 121, 208, 216, 218, 231
- deprivation of, 95, 97–8, 118, 129, 137–8, 206, 209–10, 212, 215–9
- documentary, 63–4, 67, 143, 151
- equal, 43–4, 47, 49, 53, 56, 58–9, 95–6, 98, 107–9, 220, 224–5
- multiple / dual, 216, 222–3
- pandemic passports, 196, 207
- undocumented, 63–4
- cities
- global, 232
- sanctuary, 232
- Commonwealth, 5, 30–1, 33, 43–5, 52, 55–63, 65, 84–5, 97–8
- Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962, 57–62, 85
- Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968, 57–62, 84–5, 225
- migration from Commonwealth countries, 11–12, 52, 57–8, 61–2, 84, 97
- continental/ EU membership, 6, 88
- Brexit, 52, 55, 72, 87–8, 95–8, 115–21, 130–1, 133–4
- creation of foreigners, 42, 211, 217, 222, 229
- EU Settlement Scheme, 117, 121, 135
- loss of EU free movement, 93, 115, 176
- nationalism and re-bordering, 2–3, 6, 42, 46, 48, 98–9, 107, 121, 169, 231
- Council of Europe (CoE), 90
- Covid-19 pandemic, 6, 67, 133, 191, 193, 195–6
- crimmigration, 192
- DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), 63, 180
- Dano Case, 109
- data protection and immigration control, 71, 75, 157, 183, 187
- GDPR, 71–2
- decolonisation, 1, 6, 13–14, 17, 32, 46, 48–9, 51–2
- denizen, 63
- deportation / transportation – penal colonies, 7, 12, 60, 205, 224
- deputisation, 66
- DeSouza case, 95
- discretion, executive, 231
- discrimination, structural, 58
- domestic workers, migrant
- Overseas Domestic Worker visa, 138–9, 141
- DREAM Act / Dreamers, 180–1
- Dummett and Nicol, 20, 22–4, 30–1, 37, 43, 56
- Dublin III Regulation, 111
- East African Asians case, 59, 61, 84
- East India Company, 17
- ECAT (Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking), 143–4
- ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights), 61, 71, 87, 92–3, 144, 193, 215
- EEC / EU origins, 90, 93
- Treaty of Rome, 91
- ECJ / CJEU (European Court of Justice), 92–3, 103, 105, 108, 119, 136
- proportionality review, 92
- supremacy and direct effect of EU law, 175
- education rights, 178, 193
- emergency powers, 193, 231
- Empire
- British, 3–6, 11–23, 25–49, 51–3, 55–9, 77–9, 83–5,116, 120–1, 125
- comparative, 12–17
- Equality Act 2010, 68, 140–1
- emergency powers, bordering through, 192–3, 197, 220
- equality, 2, 21, 39, 47, 58–9, 140–1, 202, 218
- ethnicity and race, 48
- Gandhi, 1, 39, 41
- Geneva Convention 1951 and 1967 Protocol, 111, 220
- Geneva Conventions on Statelessness (1954, 1961), 220
- Gentleman, Amelia, 53
- gig economy, 126, 141
- Global Compact on Refugees, 83, 111–3, 166
- Global North, 2, 78
- Global South, 1–2, 78, 216–7, 225
- Good Friday / Belfast Agreement, 93–5
- Gurkhas, 25, 41–2
- Hardial Singh case principles, 204
- health bordering, 70, 203
- data sharing, 55, 69–71, 73–5, 151, 183–4, 187–9, 202
- maternal health, 183
- NHS charging, 75, 182–4, 202
- HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) Case, 166
- Holodomor (Ukraine famine), 32
- Home Office (UK)
- hostile environment, 6, 51–2, 54–5, 63–6, 69–70, 85, 117, 127–9, 132, 141, 150–1
- Illegal Migration Act 2023, 222, 228, 230, 232
- Illegal working offence, 141, 152
- Immigration
- Immigration Act 1971, 59–61, 85, 101, 113, 149, 163–4, 203–4
- Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (UK), 226, 232
- Immigration Health Surcharge, 183–4, 187
- Immigration, labour, 6, 98, 107, 125, 127, 131, 133–4, 152, 156
- Immigration, work and welfare, 107–8, 230.
- Indentured labour, 23, 48, 229
- India
- partition of, 34, 44, 64, 82
- British rule, 18, 37, 40, 47
- Inner Temple, 37, 39
- Inns of Court, 37–8
- integration, 38, 88–9, 92–3, 222, 232
- internal bordering, 46, 52, 54, 84, 91, 151, 158, 230
- International Law Commission (ILC), 221
- intersectionality, 2, 167, 201
- Irish migration, 94–6, 217
- irregular workers, 132, 142
- labour market, 3, 97–8, 107–8, 126–7, 131, 133–4, 136, 147, 156, 163, 228
- recruitment of foreign workers, 127, 136
- Points Based System (PBS), 120, 130, 179
- land, indigenous ownership of, 23
- landlords, duties of, 67, 151
- lascars (Indian seamen), 17,24
- legal fictions, 15
- Liechtenstein, 91, 100
- Limbuela case, 149, 169
- Lisbon Treaty, 93, 111
- Lukes, Steven, 35,70,120, 168, 228
- national security, 3, 181, 191–2, 201, 206–9, 212–6, 220, 225–6, 228, 230
- Nationality and Borders Act 2022, 224–5, 228–30
- National Referral Mechanism (NRM), 143
- naturalisation, 16, 23, 100, 103, 135, 137–8, 158, 162, 165, 217–8
- New World colonies, 23, 30
- New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, 112
- NHS, 59, 69–70, 74–5, 85, 134, 182–4, 194, 202
- NHS charging regulations, 75, 182–4
- non-refoulement, 80,111
- NRPF (No Recourse to Public Funds), 107, 133
- NZYQ v Minister for Immigration – Australian High Court, 205
- constitutional validity of indefinite detention, 172, 186, 205
- Operation Nexus, 165
- Ottoman Empire
- pandemic borders, 6, 191–2, 194–5, 208, 224, 226
- passport, 16, 25–6, 53, 56, 58–9, 61, 68, 74–5, 82–3
- patriality, 60
- Immigration Act 1971, 59–61, 85, 101, 113, 149, 163–4, 203–4
- racialised belonging and whiteness, 22, 48, 60
- right of abode, 41, 60, 62, 84–5, 102
- Peace of Westphalia (1648), 13
- Plyler v Doe, 180
- Poverty, 2, 20, 44, 172, 203
- Powell, ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, 57, 85
- power, dimensions of, 229–30
- precarity, 6, 55, 65, 83, 88, 141, 157–8, 213
- Prevent (UK), 75–6, 181
- proportionality, 68–9, 72, 92, 103–5, 198, 201, 215, 224
- public charge, 113
- race, 48
- Race Relations Act 1965, 33, 58
- Race Relations Act 1968, 33, 58, 140
- Race Relations Act 1976, 33, 58
- refugee ‘crisis’ 2015, 110–2, 189
- right to rent, 67–9, 153, 202
- Ríos, Alberto, Poet, 1–2, 11, 51, 87, 125, 159, 191, 227
- Rottmann Case, 103, 176
- rule of law, 7, 29, 33, 35, 39, 65, 90, 188, 214, 230, 232
- Russia, 15–16, 31, 220
- Russian Empire, 15
- Ruiz Zambrano Case, 96, 175
- Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024, 79–80, 114, 157, 201
- sanctuary cities / sanctuary universities, 187, 232
- Schengen Area, 89, 91
- seasonal agricultural workers, 128
- second-class citizens / alien citizens, 2, 161, 218
- security, bordering, 3, 5–6, 46, 76, 128, 151, 181, 197, 207, 224–6, 230
- security, national, See also National security, 208
- Sen, Gouri, 1
- Serco, 76–7, 151, 185, 203
- settler colonies / dominions, 21–2
- Shachar, Ayelet
- shifting border, 2, 45–6, 227
- Shamima Begum case, See also Begum, Shamima, 213
- sham marriages, 164–5
- duty to report, 66, 71, 151
- overlaps with ‘non-marriage’, 165
- policing of migrant couples, 165–6
- Sikhs, 25, 27–9, 41, 45, 82
- slavery, 1, 12, 22–3, 132, 139–40, 142–7.
- abolition of, (1833), 23, 158
- chattel slavery, 22, 144–5
- modern slavery, 127, 129, 132
- small boats (Channel crossings), 78
- Somerset v Stewart (1772), 23
- Sorabji, Cornelia, 30, 37
- sovereignty, 12–13, 15, 102, 115–6, 232
- Soviet empire, 13–14
- Soviet Union, 14, 16
- statelessness, 83, 95, 103, 209–12, 215–9, 226
- Statute of Westminster 1931, 30
- subjecthood, 5–6, 15, 18–22, 31–3, 36–7, 39–44, 47–8
- Tagore, Rabindranath, 233
- Taiwo v Olaigbe case, 140
- TB screening, 194, 226
- technology and bordering, 3, 46, 107, 151, 153, 197, 224–6, 230
- temporary visas, tied, 132
- Title 42 (US)
- Trafficking Victims Protection Act 2000 (US), 139, 143–4, 146
- Treaty of Lisbon, 93, 111
- Treaty of Maastricht, 98, 111
- Treaty of Rome, 91
- UASC (Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children), 160, 170–1
- Ukraine, 1, 14, 16, 32, 78, 126, 201, 220
- Ukraine schemes (UK), 80, 114–5
- UK hostile/compliant environment, 52, 54, 63, 66, 69, 129, 157, 183, 231
- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), 169, 177
- UNHCR, 79–81, 112, 114, 200, 203
- United Nations / human rights instruments, 14, 142
- United States
- DACA, 63, 180–1
- DREAM Act, 180–1
- Family separation, 160–1, 172
- Plyler v Doe, 180
- United States v Wong Kim Ark, 96