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As the controversy over immigration control continues to unfold on a global level, this timely book explores the widespread involvement of private companies in UK detention and removal policies.
Based on original empirical data, the book pulls back the curtain on the day-to-day practices of the UK Home Office and private service providers, providing critical insights about the inner workings and failings of their processes.
Offering a unique analysis of the enactment of power and state sovereignty, this organizational ethnography will inform scholarly, policy and society debates.
'A theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich ethnography, this manuscript advances debates on migration governance, detention, statecraft, and border control.' Andrew Geddes, European University Institute
'Why do migration policies fail? At the crossroads of migration and policy studies, Infantino’s ethnographic study provides new and fascinating insights into this long-standing question. Essential reading for scholars and students of migration politics.' Antoine Pécoud, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
1. Setting the Stage for Implementing ‘Failure’
2. The Workers and the Day-to-Day Job of Implementing ‘Failure’
3. The Organisational Responses to ‘Failure’
Final Conclusions