TY - JOUR
T1 - Creating the national/border security nexus
T2 - counter-terrorist operations and monitoring middle eastern and north African visitors to the UK in the 1970s–1980s
AU - Smith, Evan
PY - 2019/5/4
Y1 - 2019/5/4
N2 - This article looks at an earlier episode in the history of the UK border security apparatus by examining how the immigration control system was used in the 1970s and 1980s to detect potential terrorists from the Middle East and North Africa. Using recently opened archival records, it shows that the UK government introduced a strict system of visa checks, interviews, and other measures to nearly all Middle Eastern and North African visitors to the UK to prevent the entry of suspected terrorist personnel. By using these highly arbitrary measures, it became the modus operandi of the UK authorities to treat all Middle Eastern and North Africans as potential terrorists until convinced otherwise.
AB - This article looks at an earlier episode in the history of the UK border security apparatus by examining how the immigration control system was used in the 1970s and 1980s to detect potential terrorists from the Middle East and North Africa. Using recently opened archival records, it shows that the UK government introduced a strict system of visa checks, interviews, and other measures to nearly all Middle Eastern and North African visitors to the UK to prevent the entry of suspected terrorist personnel. By using these highly arbitrary measures, it became the modus operandi of the UK authorities to treat all Middle Eastern and North Africans as potential terrorists until convinced otherwise.
KW - Border control
KW - Counter-terrorism
KW - Immigration
KW - Middle East
KW - North Africa
KW - United Kingdom
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85012871577&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09546553.2016.1272455
DO - 10.1080/09546553.2016.1272455
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85012871577
VL - 31
SP - 595
EP - 614
JO - TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE
JF - TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE
SN - 0954-6553
IS - 3
ER -