ABSTRACT
Immigration and asylum are major social and political issues, and scarcely a day passed in the late 1990s and early 2000s without them making headlines right across the European Union. The level of public concern is indicated by the unparalleled pace of legislation in the United Kingdom. There have been new, ever more draconian Acts of Parliament in 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, and 2004, yet still the perceived political ‘problem’ has not been ‘solved’. But what precisely is this ‘problem’?
