Privatising border control : law at the limits of the sovereign state /
Policing and punishment, once regarded as central to the state's power and its monopoly on violence, are increasingly outsourced to private providers. This collection of essays explores the growing use of the private sector and private actors in border control, and its implications for our unde...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of 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.