Illiberalism and the new politics of asylum: Liberalism's dark side

Political Quarterly

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 396-403

  Hansen, Randall ^a   King, Desmond ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0034287702     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-923X.00327     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. M. D. Bellaby, 'Backlog of Asylum Seekers Strains Britain, Raising Charges of Cheating', Centre for Immigration Studies (CIS) News, 10 May 2000.
2. For a discussion of this phenomenon, see Desmond King, In the Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in the USA and Britain, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999; and, in the American context, R. M. Smith, Civic Ideals, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1997.
3. For a discussion of this phenomenon, see Desmond King, In the Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in the USA and Britain, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999; and, in the American context, R. M. Smith, Civic Ideals, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1997.
4. R. Hansen, Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000.
5. J. A. Garrard, The English and Immigration 1880-1910, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1971; B. Gainer, The Alien Invasion, London, Macmillan, 1972.
6. J. A. Garrard, The English and Immigration 1880-1910, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1971; B. Gainer, The Alien Invasion, London, Macmillan, 1972.
7. Royal Commission on Alien Immigration, Report of the Royal Commission on Alien Immigration, vol. 1: The Report, London, HMSO, 1903, Cd 1741.
8. Among its opponents was the young Winston Churchill, who argued that it violated 'broad, general principles, long held in veneration in this country'. He specified three main objections: 'it endangered the right of asylum to political offenders and the poor and unfortunate. It allowed a police officer or Customs House officer to pronounce on matters of opinion, and it created a different status for people living together in this country. All should be free and equal before the law.' Jewish Chronicle, 15 July 1904, p. 21.
9. For the argument at the time, see Iain Macleod in the Spectator, 23 February 1968, pp. 225-6.
10. For the documentary proof of his case, and for the story, see R. Hansen, 'British Politics, the Kenyan Asians, and the Commonwealth Immigrants Act, 1968', Historical Journal, 1999, pp. 809-34.
11. Speech to the Annual General Meeting of the West Midlands Area Conservative Political Centre, Birmingham, 20 April, 1968, in Enoch Powell, Reflections of a Statesman: The Writings and Speeches of Enoch Powell, London, Bellew, 1991, pp. 373-9.
12. Quoted in Bellaby, 'Backlog of Asylum Seekers'.
13. A. Sparrow, 'Number of Asylum Cases Processed Hits Record', Daily Telegraph, 25 April 2000.
14. 'Army Camps Plan for Refugee Surge', Guardian, 11 May 2000.
15. Quoted in 'Hague Turns on Asylum Critics', Guardian, 2 May 2000. Rowe is MP for Faversham, an asylum 'hot spot' in Kent.