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by mortgaging their house, in the hope he could send back money to support
them. He had got through immigration and found some cousins, who
advised him to go to Croydon and apply for asylum. He did so, and was
arrested and sent to Campsfield.
I am grateful for the generous encouragement of Bob Sutcliffe, who urged
me to use whatever I wanted to from his book Nacido en otra parte, which
advocates ‘the right to total worldwide freedom of movement and residence’,
which unfortunately is still only in Spanish but from which I have plundered
many ideas and facts. Nearly all the quotations of politicians in Chapter 2 are
from Paul Foot’s extensive research in Hansard for his book Immigration and
Race in British Politics, with his kind agreement. The section on Fortress
Europe is mainly based on a much more detailed document which Don Flynn
has written, and is available from him at the JCWI. The section on the trial
of the Campsfield Nine is mostly based on an article I wrote for Red Pepper. I
am very grateful for comments on the first draft from Frances Webber, Bob
Sutcliffe, Bill MacKeith, Pritam Singh, Steve Cohen, Robin Cohen, Rohini
Hensman, Ann Dummett, Meena Singh, Tony Richardson and Don Flynn. I
hope I have done some justice to them. Thanks also to Anne Beech and Pluto
Press for commissioning the book and to Bill MacKeith for his copy-editing.
Note on translation: The translation of the proceedings of the FASTI
conference is by Bill MacKeith. The rest, from French and Spanish, are by
the author.
Bibliographical note: The figures in Chapter 1 are mostly from Sutcliffe. The
quotations of politicians in Chapter 2 are from Hansard, nearly all of them
from Foot; a few are from Spencer (see Bibliography).