Austin Sarat (editor) - Privatisation of Migration Control: Power Without Accountability?

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STUDIES IN LAW, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY VOLUME 86B

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ISBN: 978-1-80117-663-7 (Print)
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ISSN: 1059-4337 (Series)

Devyani Prabhat

This special issue is the second part of a two-part edited collection on the privatisation of migration. In Part 1, we have analysed the conceptual framework for understanding private participation in immigration control in the UK. There are clear links with national security concerns but these are always necessary for heightened immigration control. In the ordinary and everyday situations as well it is possible to engage in pervasive immigration control. Since 2010 the UK government has increased internal immigration controls by involving private individuals who control access to essential resources like health care, travel, housing, and employment. Individuals such as employers, landlords and medical professionals have been given incentives to report on immigration status as well as threatened with sanctions in case of failure to report immigration status of those whom they come in contact with during the course of their work or lives. Such practices have created fractures in British society and set up internal borders. The resulting atmosphere of hostility towards irregular migrants was initially termed the hostile environment. Following news-stories of wrongful deportations of people who had the right to remain in the UK, such as in the Windrush scandal, the hostile environment was relabelled the compliant environment.