This article reassesses the relationship between state authority and violence in the context
of border controls. Drawing on empirical research conducted with immigration and police …

Winner of the Diversity, Inclusion and Equality Award at the Business Book Awards 2021
'Underpinned by scholarship... entertaining… Legrain's book fizzes with practical ideas.'The …

Charging regimes and the extraction of revenue are integral components of immigration
control in the United Kingdom. However, while these have been analysed in their individual …

This article develops an analysis of contemporary immigration raids in Britain, arguing that
they operate ideologically as well as institutionally to sustain the material and political …

Politicians often mention immigration enforcement, and deportation in particular, as a means
to assert state sovereignty. This article looks at deportation through exiting the European …

Numbering an estimated 164 million globally, migrant workers are an essential component
of contemporary businesses. Despite their number and indispensability in the global …

In this article, I draw on ongoing qualitative research on immigration detention and
deportation in the UK, to explore the contribution of criminology to debates over citizenship. I …

This Briefing is critical of a number of aspects of the Government's proposals in the New
Plan for Immigration regarding seeking asylum and refugee protection in the UK. But it is …

This thesis will investigate whether British immigration discourse has gone in a circle for the
last 20 years. Following on from that, it will also attempt to determine whether the …

People with an irregular migration status and asylum seekers have become issues of
substantial public policy concern for the governments of Australia and the United Kingdom …