Caroline Sawyer, Helena Wray largely based on considerations of immigration control which, in its turn, draws on global inequalities that often coincide with the old racial categories. The process of achieving a secure status, which once involved little more than entry, has become a prolonged and complex process which does not end even with the acquisition of citizenship as the growth in use of deprivation orders shows. This is perhaps a reaction less to decolonisation than to globalisation. Many of the new migrants are not from colonial territories or, at least, not from those who were most involved in the immigration of the 1950s and 1960s. There is also the fear that an easy route to citizenship has been exploited by those who might wish to harm the UK through terrorism. This must not be dismissed but such instances, and the publicity they attract, can provide useful cover for policies that principally affect the least secure and powerful of the UK’s residents. The pool of insecure irregular or temporary migrants, and their children is a growing if under-reported feature of modern life in Britain that the turn towards restriction whether at entry, settlement or citizenship does nothing to address. 30 RSCAS/EUDO-CIT-CR 2014/1 - © 2014 Authors