User:Vipul/Teresa Hayter

Teresa Hayer is an author and activist based in the United Kingdom who has advocated for anti-racism and free migration. She is the author of three books: Aid as Imperialism, The Creation of World Poverty, and Open Borders: The Case Against Immigration Controls.

Personal life
Hayter is the daughter of William Hayter, a diplomat representing the United Kingdom at the Soviet Union, and his wife Iris Marie Grey. According to The Daily Mail, Hayter, a debutante at Oxford University, "was one of the few girls of her era to attend university and became an Oxford University legend by attending 64 parties in 54 days. She later shrugged off her privileged background to join the International Marxists and write about world poverty."

Views on migration controls and refugee rights
Hayter has been a vocal campaigner and activist for greater refugee rights and the loosening of migration controls in general. Her book, Open Borders: The Case Against Immigration Controls made general arguments against migration controls and also pointed specifically to the circumstances of refugees. In the book and elsewhere, she has connected her activism for migration rights with her anti-racist views. The book is available for free online and has received some reviews. In addition to her books and media interviews and articles, Hayter has also made the case for a world without borders in academic journals.

Hayter is at the helm of a campaign to close down Campsfield House, a detention centre in the United Kingdom.

In March 2007, Hayter refused to share the podium with David Coleman (an advisor and one of the founders of Migration Watch UK in the United Kingdom and a demographer at St. John's College, Oxford), and supported a petition by the Oxford STAR calling on the vice chancellor, John Hood, to "consider the suitability of Coleman's continued tenure as a Professor of the University, in light of his well-known opinions and affiliations relating to immigration and eugenics."

Aid and poverty
Hayter wrote two books on the subject of the world order and its role in poverty: Aid as Imperalism (1971) and The Creation of World Poverty. The former was reviewed in The Spectator in 1972. The latter was reviewed by Leading Light.

Reception
Hayter has been interviewed by a number of blogs and websites. She has penned a column for The Guardian (a UK-based newspaper) and is frequently cited and quoted in The Guardian and other British publications on issues related to asylum seekers and refugees.