Abstract
This chapter examines the triangulation of control exerted on asylum seekers through state mechanisms of deportation, detention, and dispersed accommodation, and it specifically addresses the impacts of the privatisation of each of these services. It explores the involvement of private security firms, like G4S and Serco, in the management of immigration removal centres and accompanying prisoners during deportation. Drawing on Esposito’s concept of ‘immunisation’, this chapter explores the extent to which private security’s involvement in the management of immigration removal centres embodies a logic of inoculating citizens from the perceived threat of the outsider. The second half of this chapter explores the entry of private security firms into the management of the United Kingdom’s dispersed accommodation for asylum seekers. It addresses the extensive harm and victimisation asylum seekers were exposed to in dispersal areas under the management of these private security firms.
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Notes
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In 2019, 1508 asylum seekers were involuntarily removed from the United Kingdom compared to 3617 in 2015 and 7033 in 2010 (Home Office, 2020d). Walsh (2020) reports that this reduction is attributable to changes to the immigration system that include a reduction in the use of detention and the detention estate and a review of the use of involuntary deportation following the Windrush scandal.
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Hirschler, S.A. (2021). The Asylum ‘Market’: Deportation, Detention and the Privatisation of Dispersed Accommodation. In: Hostile Homes. Critical Criminological Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79213-8_4
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