Full Description
In recent years, many breaches of immigration law have been criminalised. Foreign nationals are now routinely identified in court and in prison as subjects for deportation. Police at the border and within the territory refer foreign suspects to immigration authorities for expulsion. Within the immigration system, new institutions and practices rely on criminal justice logic and methods. In these examples, it is not the state that controls the national border: instead, it is often privately contracted companies.
This collection of essays explores the growing use of the private sector and private actors in border control and its implications for our understanding of state sovereignty and citizenship. Privatising Border Control is an important empirical and theoretical contribution to the growing, interdisciplinary body of scholarship on border control. It also contributes to the academic inquiry into the growing privatisation of policing and punishment. These domains, once regarded as central to the state's police power and its monopoly on violence, are increasingly outsourced to private providers.
With contributions from scholars across a range of jurisdictions and disciplines, including Criminology, Law, and Political Science, Privatising Border Control provides a novel and comparative account of contemporary border control policy and practice. This is a must-read for academics, practitioners, and policymakers interested in immigration law and the growing use of the private sector and private actors in border control.
Contents
Lucia Zedner and Mary Bosworth: Introduction
PART 1: THE LIMITS OF STATE SOVEREIGNTY
1: Jennifer Chacón: Same as It Ever Was? Race, Capital, and Privatized Immigration Enforcement
2: Valsamis Mitsilegas: Contested Sovereignty in Preventive Border Control: Civil Society, the 'Hostile Environment' and the Rule of Law
3: Peter Ramsay: The Borders of Sovereignty
PART 2: LEGITIMACY AND THE RULE OF THE LAW AT THE BORDER
4: Malcolm Thorburn: Roles and Offices at the Border: Is Privatizing Border Control Intrinsically Illegitimate?
5: Ashwini Vasanthakumar: Towards Legitimacy at the Border
6: Emily Ryo and Ian Peacock: Privatized Immigration Detention: Morality, Economics and Transparency
PART 3: OUTSOURCING OR UNDERMINING STATE AUTHORITY
7: Hallam Tuck: "Because We Are Deportable People": Privatization, Citizenship, and Race in US All-Foreign Prisons
8: Federica Infantino: The Marketization of 'Legitimate' Violence: Inducing Deportation through Public-Private Cooperation
9: Mary Bosworth and Samuel Singler: A Mundane Spectacle? (In)visibility, Normalisation and State Power in the UK's Migrant Escorting Contract
PART 4: PRACTICES OF PRIVATISATION AT THE BORDER
10: Anthea Vogl: Outsourcing Deterrence: The Humanitarian Border, Asylum Seekers and Non-Government Organizations in Australia
11: Lucia Zedner: Outsourcing the Border Within: Private Citizens as Border Guards, State Sovereignty and Civil Peace
12: Didier Bigo: The Digitalisation of Border Controls and Their Corporate Actors
Ana Aliverti: Afterword
