Privatising border control : law at the limits of the sovereign state / edited by Mary Bosworth, Lucia Zedner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bosworth, Mary, (editor).

Zedner, Lucia, (editor).

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Border security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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. In so doing, the book makes a sustained empirical and conceptual contribution to the interdisciplinary body of scholarship on border control, with a particular focus on legal and criminological accounts. It also contributes a new dimension to academic enquiry into the privatisation of policing and punishment. The privatisation of border controls takes many forms and encompasses widely varying practices that range from the contracting out to private security firms of border controls formerly undertaken by state officials, to the assumption of monitoring and other interventions by NGOs, and even private citizens, to entirely new technologies of control. The tasks and roles that have been privatised range from services like cleaning, catering, and transport to control functions such as detaining, guarding, and escorting by private security companies. Duties to monitor immigration status and report irregularities are outsourced to charities, NGOs, professionals (including doctors, professors, and teachers), as well as to private citizens like landlords, while new tools of digital security and data highways operate above and beyond the border, well away from public view. Together, as the essays show, these topics invite continuing scrutiny, both for their own sake and for the effects of privatisation on state authority, on membership of the polity, and the legitimacy of the diverse laws, procedures, and practices by which borders are governed today." -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Border control, privatisation, and the state: an introduction / Lucia Zedner and Mary Bosworth. Part I. The limits if state sovereignty. Same as it ever was? Race, capital, and privatised immigration enforcement / Jennifer Chacon ; Contested sovereignty in preventive border control: civil society, the ‘hostile environment’, and the rule of law / Valsamis Mitsilegas ; The border of sovereignty / Peter Ramsay – Part II. Legitimacy and the rule of law at the border. Roles and offices at the border: is privatising border control intrinsically illegitimate? Malcom Thorburn ; Towards legitimacy at the border / Ashwini Vasanthakumar ; Privatised immigration detention: morality, economics, and transparency / Emily Ryo and Ian Peacock – Part III. Outsourcing or undermining state authority. ‘Because we are deplorable people’: privatisation, citizenship, and race in US all-foreign prisons / Hallam Tuck ; The marketisation of ‘Legitimate’ violence: inducing deportation through public-private cooperation / Federica Infantino ; A mundane spectacle? (In)visibility, normalization, and state power in the UK’s Migrant Escorting Contract / Mary Bosworth and Samuel Singler – Part IV. Practices of privatisation at the border. Outsourcing deterrence: the humanitarian border, asylum seekers, and non-government organisations in Australia / Anthea Vogl ; Outsourcing the border within: private citizens as border guards, state sovereignty, and civil peace / Lucia Zedner ; The digitalization of border control and their corporate actors / Didier Bigo ; The privatisation of border control and the limits of state sovereignty: an afterword / Ana Aliverti.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Bosworth, Mary Privatising Border Control

ISBN:

0191947946

0192671405

0192671413

9780191947940

9780192671400

9780192671417

9780192857163

0192857169