Privatization of migration control : power without accountability? / edited by Austin Sarat (Amherst College, USA).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin, editor.

Series:

Studies in law, politics, and society.

Studies in law, politics, and society ; V86, -- Part B

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration law.

Privatization.

Immigration enforcement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 105 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2021]

Summary:

This special issue is the second of a two-part edited collection on the privatization of migration. The central thrust of the special issue is a critical analysis of modern day manifestations of private participation in immigration control such as through companies which run detention and deportation programmes and individual landlords, medical professionals and employers who become -- Part of immigration enforcement. In the chapters the authors examine the role of private stakeholders and the political economy in migration control.

Contents:

Introduction / Devyani Prabhat

Section 1: Private stakeholders in migration control

Chapter 1. How are migrants, especially male asylum seekers, deterred from safe journeys and lawful entry into the UK through carrier sanctions? / Aleksandra Wegera

Chapter 2. By what means are medical professionals able to reject hostile environment policy within the nhs? / Isabella Bertolini

Chapter 3. Twenty-two years of employer sanctions: to what extent has deputising employers woven ethnocentrism into the United Kingdom's approach to controlling irregular migration? / Emily Rigler Gillingham

Chapter 4. In the context of the agricultural industry, to what extent does the UK government's 'hostile environment' agenda outweigh the impact of the modern slavery act 2015 on irregular workers? / Harriet Parfitt

section 2 : The political economy and commodification of migration

Chapter 5. To what extent did the private hybridity of the East India Company result in lack of accountability? / Akosua-Rose Oppon

Chapter 6. Migration as a commodity: do you possess the 'golden ticket ...?' an assessment of the tier 1 (investor) visa's social and economic effect on the UK's migration system / Isobel Kamber.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781801176620

1801176620

9781801176644

1801176647

OCLC:

1260347889