Supply Chain Justice : The Logistics of British Border Control.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bosworth, Mary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Illegal immigration--Government policy--Great Britain.

Illegal immigration.

Noncitizen detention centers--Great Britain--Employees.

Noncitizen detention centers.

Deportation--Great Britain.

Deportation.

Border security--Great Britain.

Border security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"How the UK's immigration detention and deportation system turns people into monetized, measurable units on a supply chain In the UK's fully outsourced "immigration detainee escorting system," private sector security employees detain, circulate and deport foreign national citizens. Run and organized like a supply chain, this system dehumanises those who are detained and deported, treating them as if they were packages to be moved from place to place and relying on poorly paid, minimally trained staff to do so. In Supply Chain Justice, Mary Bosworth offers the first empirically grounded, scholarly analysis of the British detention and deportation system. Drawing on four years of extensive ethnographic research, Bosworth examines what keeps the system in place and whether it might be effectively challenged.Told by a senior manager that "this is a logistics business," Bosworth documents how the public and private sectors have built a supply chain in which people's humanity is transformed both symbolically and tangibly through administrative processes and bureaucracy into monetized, measurable units. Like all logistics, the system has failure built into it. The contract does not seek to eradicate risk but rather to manage it, determining responsibility and apportioning a financial value to such "failures" as delay, escape, aborted flight or death in custody. Front-line workers and managers depoliticise and normalise their efforts by casting their duties in familiar bureaucratic terms, with targets, "service level agreements" and "key performance indicators." Focusing on first-hand accounts from workers and lengthy observation and document analysis, Bosworth explores the impact of border logistics in order to ask what it would it take to build inclusive infrastructures rather than those designed to exclude"-- Provided by publisher.

"In the UK's fully outsourced "immigration detainee escorting system," private sector security employees detain, circulate and deport foreign national citizens. Run and organized like a supply chain, this system dehumanises those who are detained and deported, treating them as if they were packages to be moved from place to place and relying on poorly paid, minimally trained staff to do so. In Supply Chain Justice, Mary Bosworth offers the first empirically grounded, scholarly analysis of the British detention and deportation system. Drawing on four years of extensive ethnographic research, Bosworth examines what keeps the system in place and whether it might be effectively challenged. Told by a senior manager that "this is a logistics business," Bosworth documents how the public and private sectors have built a supply chain in which people's humanity is transformed both symbolically and tangibly through administrative processes and bureaucracy into monetized, measurable units. Like all logistics, the system has failure built into it. The contract does not seek to eradicate risk but rather to manage it, determining responsibility and apportioning a financial value to such "failures" as delay, escape, aborted flight or death in custody. Front-line workers and managers depoliticise and normalise their efforts by casting their duties in familiar bureaucratic terms, with targets, "service level agreements" and "key performance indicators." Focusing on first-hand accounts from workers and lengthy observation and document analysis, Bosworth explores the impact of border logistics in order to ask what it would it take to build inclusive infrastructures rather than those designed to exclude"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Manufacturing the border control supply chain

Data management and logistics: building the border control infrastructure

Manston and Dover: permanent crisis on the South Coast

Warehouses and cross-docking: short-term holding facilities

Circulation and transportation: life "on the road"

Frequent flyers: scheduled deportations and removals

Midnight departures: charter flights

Conclusion: Border control logistics, labour and the state.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780691259925

0691259925

OCLC:

1465266404