Book review: M Bosworth, A Parmar and Y Yázquez (eds), Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control: Enforcing the Boundaries of Belonging

In an era of mass mobility, those who are permitted to migrate and those who are criminalized, controlled, and prohibited from migrating are heavily patterned by race. By placing race at the centre of its analysis, this volume brings together fourteen essays that examine, question, and explain the growing intersection between criminal justice and migration control. Through the lens of race, we see how criminal justice and migration enmesh in order to exclude, stop, and excise racialized citizens and non-citizens from societies across the world within, beyond, and along borders. Neatly organized in four parts, the book begins with chapters that present a conceptual analysis of race, borders, and social control, moving to the institutions that make up and shape the criminal justice and migration complex. The remaining chapters are convened around the key sites where criminal justice and migration control intersect: policing, courts, and punishment. Together the volume presents a critical and timely analysis of how race shapes and complicates mobility and how racism is enabled and reanimated when criminal justice and migration control coalesce. Race and the meaning of race in relation to citizenship and belonging are excavated throughout the chapters presented in the book, thereby transforming the way we think about migration.

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Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control

10.1093/oso/9780198814887.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mary Bosworth ◽

Alpa Parmar ◽

Yolanda Vázquez

Keyword(s):

Criminal Justice ◽

Race And Ethnicity ◽

The State ◽

Immigration Law ◽

The World ◽

Migration Control ◽

And Migration ◽

The Way

In the introductory chapter the editors discuss why a volume that brings together race, migration, and criminal justice, in a way that speaks to issues of belonging, is both timely and necessary. In highlighting the gaps in various disciplinary literatures including the sociology of migration, criminology, and immigration law, this collection of essays discusses explicitly how concerns about race and ethnicity animate many of the state and popular responses to the growing numbers of migrants across the world. Race and the meaning of race in relation to citizenship and belonging is excavated through the chapters presented in the book, and the book as a whole thereby transforming the way we think about migration and the construction of boundaries and borders.

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Arresting (non)Citizenship: The Policing Migration Nexus of Nationality, Race and Criminalization

Theoretical Criminology ◽

10.1177/1362480619850800 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 28-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alpa Parmar

Keyword(s):

Criminal Justice ◽

Racial Profiling ◽

Public Institutions ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Foreign National ◽

Racial And Ethnic Minorities ◽

Migration Control ◽

And Migration ◽

The Uk ◽

Minority Ethnic

In this article I examine ‘Operation Nexus’, a collaborative initiative between the police and immigration enforcement in the UK, and its impact on foreign national and minority ethnic suspects of offending. I explain how strategic policing aims to manage migration around notions such as ‘high harm’ offenders, target those who appear ‘foreign’ as well as visible ethnic minority suspects, the latter of which may hold citizenship in the UK. The consequences of Operation Nexus are therefore wider than its stated aim because it legitimizes racial profiling by the police and has negative consequences on notions of belonging for racialized foreign nationals and citizens albeit in different ways. By presenting empirical research with those who implement Operation Nexus as well as those who experience it, I elucidate how the policing of migration revives and extends colonial premises that connect nationality, race and criminalization within the expanding and merging realm of contemporary criminal justice and migration control. I draw on Lerman and Weaver’s thesis that when contemporary criminal justice policies disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minorities, they create an unequal group of people that are exiled within their own society and disenfranchised from public institutions such as the police.

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Aubrianne Norton, Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control

AmeriQuests ◽

10.15695/amqst.v14i2.4601 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Aubrianne Norton

Keyword(s):

Criminal Justice ◽

Social Control ◽

Specific Population ◽

Race And Gender ◽

Migration Control ◽

The Law ◽

And Gender ◽

And Migration ◽

Comprehensive Compilation

Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control: Enforcing the Boundaries of Belonging, edited by Mary Bosworth, Apla Parmar, and Yolanda Vazquez, is an anthology of essays involving the intersectionality of race separated into four sections: 1) Race, Borders, and Social Control; 2) Race, Policing, and Security; 3) Race, Courts, and the Law; and 4) Race, Detention, and Deportation. As an introduction to intersectionality between race, and gender and class, this anthology gives a somewhat comprehensive compilation of migration issues stemming in countries that exercise firm control over migration of incoming migrants and exiting migrants. Each article focuses on an issue ongoing with a specific population of people, and how the mechanisms in place for migration function criminally and divisively.

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Punishment, globalization and migration control: ‘Get them the hell out of here’

Punishment & Society ◽

10.1177/1462474517738984 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 34-53 ◽

Cited By ~ 44

Author(s):

Mary Bosworth ◽

Katja Franko ◽

Sharon Pickering

Keyword(s):

Criminal Justice ◽

Key Concepts ◽

Migration Control ◽

The Future ◽

Global Connectivity ◽

And Migration

This article considers the future of punishment in a world shaped by competing and reinforcing forces of globalization and nationalism. In it, we call for a wider conversation about the growing interdependence between criminal justice and migration control and of its implications for many of the key concepts and approaches within the field of punishment and society. The article examines the renewed salience of defending borders and drawing boundaries between members and non-members, as well as the shifting focus of penal power from issues of imprisonment and morality, towards questions of immobilization and expulsion from the polity. By doing so, it also addresses the gaps in the existing theories and narratives about penality, which fail to take properly into account the implications of global connectivity, while overlooking enduring matters of racial and class inequity. Finally, the article points out how the progressive destabilization of citizenship and the precarity of membership and belonging are inimically linked to increasingly potent exhortations of penal power that affect us all.

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Book Review

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v11i3.232 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 387-390

Author(s):

Antonina Levatino

Keyword(s):

Control Strategies ◽

Human Mobility ◽

Diverse Range ◽

Transnational Mobility ◽

Migration Management ◽

Nation States ◽

Migration Control ◽

Political Economic ◽

Controversial Nature

Martin Geiger & Antoine Pécoud (eds.), Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 271 pp., (ISBN 978-1-137-26306-3).In the last decades a very diverse range of initiatives have been undertaken in order to intensify and diversify the ways human mobility is managed and restricted. This trend towards a ‘diversification’ of the migration control strategies stems from the increased awareness by the nation-states of the profoundly controversial nature of the migration management enterprise because of its political, economic, social and moral implications.

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