Dependency

Submitted To: Mr. Dudley Augustine Submitted from; Meliza Solano Date: November 28, 2008

Teresa Hayter Is a sociologist who assesses with the impact of the increasing severity of border controls since they were first introduced and makes the controversial case for their abolition. Hayter focuses on postwar immigration controls, especially the use of such controls against the peoples of former European colonies and their effects in the Caribbean. Hayter argues that the existence of controls leads to great suffering and abuse of human rights,

and that immigration controls are racist and help legitimate racism. She demonstrates that immigration controls have actually had a limited impact on controlling numbers. To illustrate her arguments, she draws on empirical material, relating in particular to the use of detention, arbitrary decision-making and the denial of benefits. She compares British government policies with policies elsewhere in the Caribbean and calls for the free movement of people and the abolition of border controls. She wrote books and her new edition brings this seminal work up to date with a lengthy preface exploring how the practices of the British government over the past few years has continued the process. Hayter outlines in the main text of abusive and irrational border controls and the criminalisation of entire communities

Teresa Hayter suggests that dependency on food and financial Aid prevent autonomous growth in the Caribbean. Teresa Hayter's note that the main objective was the "preservation of the existing world economic order. Instead, she chooses to explore the next best question, why poverty exists in the South? So, she takes it on to herself to expose the crime and ends up with explanations that are today a common place in the radical literature on under- development. There is very little in her work that is startling or excitingly new. Beginning with the exposition of

the history of early colonial atrocities, through which Europe managed to amass untold fortunes and push the South into unending poverty, she goes on to show how in the modern times similar exploitation of the South is continued through the triad of aid, trade and foreign investment. To all of these one can (and as a colleague of mine often does) How can the impoverished masses in the South be benefited from that knowledge? Or, how can all that be changed in favour of the downtrodden South? To these queries she, like the dependency theory on which the book is based, offers the simplistic solution of 'socialism'. Even if it is the solution, socialism is not a package deal that can be obtained from the grocer. It requires a carefully planned strategy and needs to be fought for and won. In the mean time, and short of that the hungry millions would need to be fed and clothed. Neither dependency theory nor Hayter offers any clear-cut programme that's may be followed by the South to free itself from the North. Indeed, if Hayter wanted to do justice to her purpose, that where she should have concentrated. Thus, Hayter has little to offer beyond documenting the process through which the South came to be impoverished and continues to get poorer. She follows an archaic system of citation, which needs to be formalized. She also needs to refer to the now available macro level research reports on Third World development. All of these can be easily remedied. Indeed, other than some astray remarks and occasional citation the book hardly deals with the Report.