Published
Dec 1, 2025Page count
160 pagesISBN
978-1529214369Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Dec 1, 2025Page count
160 pagesISBN
978-1529214376Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University PressAs 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.
Federica Infantino is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute.
Setting the stage of the privatization of detention
Co-operation in Practice
Organizational responses
Towards a global critique of the privatization of detention?