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Policing the Enforcers: The Governmentality of Immigration Controls
International Political Sociology ( IF 3.5 ) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 , DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae008
Erica Consterdine

As border controls have spanned from the territorial border to the interior, outsourcing controls to non-state actors has become the integral technology in everyday bordering. Whilst the racialized consequences of deputizing controls have been illuminated, the governmentality and biopolitical implications of these outsourcing processes have been overlooked. This paper argues that as the architecture of migration controls has evolved, the targets of control have widened; that migration controls have transcended migrants and are also used as a way to control sovereign subjects. Taking the genealogy of UK immigration control policy as a case study, the paper shows how the processes of outsourcing immigration controls to corporations, public institutions, and the private sphere have inverted the target of control through a governmentality of coercive measures and incentive structures. I argue that in outsourcing controls to non-state actors, the taken-for-granted boundaries between who is subject to immigration control and who is not are blurred because as sovereign subjects become complicit in borderwork, they also become subject to state violence. The implication is that all subjects become subject to immigration control, provoking the question of who immigration controls serve and to what end.

中文翻译:


执法者警务:移民管制的政府性



由于边境管制已经从领土边界跨越到内陆,将控制外包给非国家行为体已成为日常边境中不可或缺的技术。虽然已经阐明了代理控制的种族化后果,但这些外包过程的政府性和生物政治影响被忽视了。本文认为,随着迁移控制架构的发展,控制对象也扩大了;移民控制已经超越了移民,也被用作控制主权臣民的一种方式。本文以英国移民管制政策的谱系为案例研究,展示了将移民控制外包给公司、公共机构和私人领域的过程如何通过强制性措施和激励结构的政府性来颠倒控制目标。我认为,在将控制外包给非国家行为者时,谁受移民管制和谁不受移民管制之间理所当然的界限变得模糊,因为随着主权主体成为边境工作的同谋,他们也成为国家暴力的受害者。这意味着所有主体都受到移民管制,这引发了移民管制为谁服务以及目的是什么的问题。
更新日期:2024-03-13
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