Dummett, M: On Immigration and Refugees

"Makes the case meticulously ... a terrible indictment of modern British immigration policy." - The Economist

"Passionately argued and shot through with a sense of urgency ... an invigorating read." - The Tablet

"Acutely spots a blank in the mentality of earlier political philosophers who 'have seldom asked what obligations a state has towards those who are not its citizens', and argues powerfully against those who 'hold that we have at most only negative duties towards strangers: that, for example, we may not kill them, but have no duty to protect them from being killed.'" - The Evening Standard

"A lucid philosophical discussion of the ethical principles at stake in matters of immigration and asylum, and a sharp review of the historical ways they have been manhandled." - New Left Review

"Its greatest contribution is to demolish the arguments uses by politicians and the media, and to expose their implicit racism... It would be hard to find another short book which analyses the causes and development of racism so clearly, and shows the connivance in fostering racial prejudice of successive governments of all parties." - Local Government Studies