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Privatizing Border Control: Law at the Limits of the Sovereign State

Privatizing Border Control: Law at the Limits of the Sovereign State

Author: Mary Bosworth; Lucia Zedner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192857163
Published In: November 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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.

Introduction, Lucia Zedner and Mary Bosworth

PART 1: THE LIMITS OF STATE SOVEREIGNTY

1:Same as It Ever Was? Race, Capital, and Privatized Immigration Enforcement, Jennifer Chacón

2:Contested Sovereignty in Preventive Border Control: Civil Society, the 'Hostile Environment' and the Rule of Law, Valsamis Mitsilegas

3:The Borders of Sovereignty, Peter Ramsay

PART 2: LEGITIMACY AND THE RULE OF THE LAW AT THE BORDER

4:Roles and Offices at the Border: Is Privatizing Border Control Intrinsically Illegitimate?, Malcolm Thorburn

5:Towards Legitimacy at the Border, Ashwini Vasanthakumar

6:Privatized Immigration Detention: Morality, Economics and Transparency, Emily Ryo and Ian Peacock

PART 3: OUTSOURCING OR UNDERMINING STATE AUTHORITY

7:"Because We Are Deportable People": Privatization, Citizenship, and Race in US All-Foreign Prisons, Hallam Tuck

8:The Marketization of 'Legitimate' Violence: Inducing Deportation through Public-Private Cooperation, Federica Infantino

9:A Mundane Spectacle? (In)visibility, Normalisation and State Power in the UK's Migrant Escorting Contract, Mary Bosworth and Samuel Singler

PART 4: PRACTICES OF PRIVATISATION AT THE BORDER

10:Outsourcing Deterrence: The Humanitarian Border, Asylum Seekers and Non-Government Organizations in Australia, Anthea Vogl

11:Outsourcing the Border Within: Private Citizens as Border Guards, State Sovereignty and Civil Peace, Lucia Zedner

12:The Digitalisation of Border Controls and Their Corporate Actors, Didier Bigo

Afterword, Ana Aliverti

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