Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control
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- Published:
- Dec 17, 2024
- Copyright:
- 2025
- 17 b/w illus.
- Main_subject:
- Political Science
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In the UK鈥檚 fully outsourced 鈥渋mmigration detainee escorting system,鈥� private sector security employees detain, circulate and deport foreign national citizens. Run and organized like a supply chain, this system dehumanises those who are detained and deported, treating them as if they were packages to be moved from place to place and relying on poorly paid, minimally trained staff to do so. In Supply Chain Justice, Mary Bosworth offers the first empirically grounded, scholarly analysis of the British detention and deportation system. Drawing on four years of extensive ethnographic research, Bosworth examines what keeps the system in place and whether it might be effectively challenged.
Told by a senior manager that 鈥渢his is a logistics business,鈥� Bosworth documents how the public and private sectors have built a supply chain in which people鈥檚 humanity is transformed both symbolically and tangibly through administrative processes and bureaucracy into monetized, measurable units. Like all logistics, the system has failure built into it. The contract does not seek to eradicate risk but rather to manage it, determining responsibility and apportioning a financial value to such 鈥渇ailures鈥� as delay, escape, aborted flight or death in custody. Front-line workers and managers depoliticise and normalise their efforts by casting their duties in familiar bureaucratic terms, with targets, 鈥渟ervice level agreements鈥� and 鈥渒ey performance indicators.鈥� Focusing on first-hand accounts from workers and lengthy observation and document analysis, Bosworth explores the impact of border logistics in order to ask what it would take to build inclusive infrastructures rather than those designed to exclude.
