TY - JOUR
T1 - Immigration detention and juxtaposed border controls on the French north coast
AU - Bosworth, Mary
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The research and writing up of this article were supported by two grants: European Research Council, Starter Grant, 313362, ‘Subjectivity, Identity and Penal Power: Incarceration in a Global Age’ and British Academy Grant IC4/1000160, ‘Privatising Border Control and Sovereign Power’.
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Copyright:
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PY - 2022/7/1
Y1 - 2022/7/1
N2 - In this article, I build on criminological accounts of immigration detention by examining British short-term holding facilities located on French territory in the ports of Calais and Dunkerque and the policies and treaties that govern them. For a number of reasons, including barriers to research access, their legal complexity, and their modest size and nature, these institutions have received little empirical or theoretical scrutiny. Yet, as I shall demonstrate through an analysis of a range of published material from Parliamentary debates, government and non-governmental agencies, the media and the Internet, as well as observations of the sites themselves and figures about them, these banal, bureaucratic sites of temporary custody play an important role in upholding the more familiar border spectacle of the region.
AB - In this article, I build on criminological accounts of immigration detention by examining British short-term holding facilities located on French territory in the ports of Calais and Dunkerque and the policies and treaties that govern them. For a number of reasons, including barriers to research access, their legal complexity, and their modest size and nature, these institutions have received little empirical or theoretical scrutiny. Yet, as I shall demonstrate through an analysis of a range of published material from Parliamentary debates, government and non-governmental agencies, the media and the Internet, as well as observations of the sites themselves and figures about them, these banal, bureaucratic sites of temporary custody play an important role in upholding the more familiar border spectacle of the region.
KW - administrative power
KW - border spectacle
KW - Calais
KW - Immigration detention
KW - juxtaposed controls
KW - sovereignty
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U2 - 10.1177/1477370820902971
DO - 10.1177/1477370820902971
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85079456678
SN - 1477-3708
VL - 19
SP - 506
EP - 522
JO - European Journal of Criminology
JF - European Journal of Criminology
IS - 4
ER -