This by @NadineElEnany is 
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"Britain’s borders, articulated and policed via immigration laws, maintain the global racial order established by colonialism, whereby colonised peoples are dispossessed of land and resources..." https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/articles/britain-as-the-spoils-of-empire/


"Britain’s borders, articulated and policed via immigration laws, maintain the global racial order established by colonialism, whereby colonised peoples are dispossessed of land and resources..." https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/articles/britain-as-the-spoils-of-empire/
"...They also maintain Britain as a racially and colonially configured space in which the racialised poor are subject to the operation of internal borders and are disproportionately vulnerable to street and state racial terror..."
"... Britain is thus not only bordered, but also racially and colonially ordered, through the operation of immigration control."
Need to order this book pronto

On the 1981 immigration act
"The 1981 Act did not therefore signify an end to British colonialism but was itself a colonial manoeuvre. It was an act of appropriation, a final seizure of the wealth and infrastructure secured through centuries of colonial conquest"
"The 1981 Act did not therefore signify an end to British colonialism but was itself a colonial manoeuvre. It was an act of appropriation, a final seizure of the wealth and infrastructure secured through centuries of colonial conquest"