<i>No Pass Laws Here!</i> Internal Border Controls and the Global ‘Hostile Environment’

This article explores internal border controls in 1980s Britain, examining how they were conceptualised and resisted by a group of activists, the No Pass Laws Here! Group. Drawing on archival research conducted at Hull History Centre Institute Race Relations focusing analysis Group’s public-facing information leaflets bulletins, this created differentiated access to employment welfare state, targeting migrant racialised residents citizens. The framing analysis, particular their use pass laws as frame through which apprehend spread controls, argues, allows us draw out continuities between policies developed maintain colonial rule those present metropole.