By D. McGhee
This publication examines counter-terrorism, immigration, citizenship, human rights, "equalities" and the moving discourses of "shared values" and human rights in modern Britain.
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The new border control measures and the Prevent strategies are concrete examples that help to ground the often theoretical and abstract discussions with regard to ‘security’ and ‘insecurity’ in contemporary advanced Western societies (some of which will be examined in Chapter 2). Both of these ‘strategies’ also tell us a great deal about what ‘we’ fear and how, in practical terms countries such as the UK attempt to pre-empt the potential dangers and threats that could ‘harm us’. com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-04-19 36 37 profiles that frame who is “abnormal”’ (Bigo 2008: 2) whether through high-technology systems of dataveillance or through the low-technology imperatives of Muslim communities closely examining their children and neighbours for ‘tell-tale’ signs of ‘radicalization’.
According to Gibney, there now exists a paradox in the West in that Western states recognize the rights of refugees but have simultaneously criminalized their search for asylum through ‘non-arrival measures’ (2006: 14 and 143) through closing down all ‘the legal avenues by which legitimate refugees might enter the UK’ (Gibney 2006: 153). For Gibney this raises the moral question: can a state evade moral responsibility for refugees simply by preventing their arrival? (2006: 155). In many ways, this question is answered by Fekete who supports some of my observations with regard to the discourses of ‘public safety’, ‘abuse’ and ‘harm’ reduction with regard to asylum seekers.
In this chapter I want to explore developments indirectly linked to the controversies over indefinite detention without charge, control orders and the extension of pre-charge detention up to 42 days. One aspect of this chapter will be the exploration of relationship between particular developments associated with Tony Blair’s (who had a parliamentary majority) and Gordon Brown’s (who did not have a parliamentary majority) very different attempts to create a consensus (both in terms of cross-party, and a wider ‘national’ consensus) on ‘security’, especially with regard to counter-terrorism.
