The business of noncitizenship |
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Authors: | Tendayi Bloom |
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Affiliation: | 1. Global Justice Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USAtendayi.bloom@yale.edu |
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Abstract: | AbstractPrivate actors play an increasing role in mediating the relationship between States and noncitizens and even in creating or perpetuating exclusions associated with noncitizenship. This paper offers a way to analyse the forms of engagement of the for-profit private sector in migration control and asks what it means for how noncitizenship is constructed. It presents the private sector as acting like a buffer, altering whether and how individuals may engage with a State constructing what noncitizenship means within a State’s territory, and removing so-constructed individuals from a relationship with that State. It shows how this may occur directly or indirectly, explicitly or implicitly. The paper addresses two main concerns: the impact on the State-noncitizen relationship and whether there are some areas of the relationship between the State and the noncitizen that should not be so-delegated. It argues that privatised migration control raises problems for standard justifications of migration control and noncitizenship construction. |
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Keywords: | Border control human rights migration noncitizenship privatisation |
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