Development and the Externalisation of Border Controls

Aliverti, Ana; Tan, Celine

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“…Border externalization can be understood as part of the growing entanglement of logics of securitization, managerialism and humanitarian aid. In the British context, for example, the UK government has routed extensive funds and development assistance in Africa in the name of security and state building ‘to bolster human, technological and infrastructural capacity to control borders in major sending and transit countries … [or] tying foreign aid to the sending state’s cooperation on returns’ (Aliverti and Tan, 2020: 207). Taken together, these critical insights provide a compelling critique of contemporary immigration control and make an important contribution to the analysis of the intersections of migration and criminal justice within criminology (see, for example, Bosworth, 2017b).…”

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The externalization of border control in the global South: The cases of Malaysia and Indonesia

Lee

2022

Theoretical Criminology

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Existing scholarship highlights the novel approaches and the capacity of northern states to control mass mobility by externalizing the border; outsource their control apparatus to migrant sending and transit countries; process and detain irregular arrivals in offshore locations; and expand the reach of sovereign powers extraterritorially. Significantly, the processes and outcomes of externalization are neither homogeneous nor uncontested. This article seeks to provide critical insights into the divergent nature of border externalization and contributes to a de-centring of northern-centric notions of the state’s role in border control by comparing how border control plays out in Malaysia and Indonesia under Australia’s externalization policy agenda. Their different border control outcomes reflect important intervening factors in the two countries’ internal (domestic political and economic realities; attitudes towards migrants and their control) and external (interstate geo-political relations) environment in shaping the situated meanings and the realities of border security building.

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The externalization of border control in the global South: The cases of Malaysia and Indonesia

Lee

2022

Theoretical Criminology

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“…The delicate strategizing of persuasion and coercion to obtain consent in the everyday praxis of immigration enforcement extends to the domestic domain, the international development politics of threat and incentives where migration controls are a condition for receiving aid (Aliverti and Tan, 2020). Bargain and negotiation, according to CIO Bruce, are vital aspects to facilitate removal: ‘it's more than just “we're putting somebody on a plane, and you get off at the other side” […] It's also a bit of positive reward as well, because we ban people for 10 years for applying for a visa.…”

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Manufacturing Obedience: Coercion and Authority in Border Controls

Aliverti

2021

Punishment & Society

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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 officers in the UK, I show that the use of force in this context give rise to distinctively complex ethical questions which shape institutional and individual practices, and is entangled with the legally and politically fragile authority wielded by frontline staff. Faced with a morally, socially and politically controversial mandate, these officers devise a range of strategies to either minimize or conceal the use of violence. In doing so, they sometimes fall into oxymorons and euphemisms that at once evidence the shady line between coercion and consent, and shed light on the some of the profound moral dilemmas they encounter in doing border work. These dilemmas, I conclude, speak of broader challenges to the exercise of state coercive power, and the negotiated, contingent and provisional nature of state authority in a globalized, postcolonial and profoundly unequal world. I also argue for the social and intellectual urge to integrate the study of immigration enforcement in contemporary debates of state penality.

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Policing the Borders Within

Aliverti¹

2021

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Policing the Borders Within offers an in-depth, comprehensive exploration of the everyday working of inland border controls in Britain informed by extensive empirical material explored through the lens of wide-ranging interdisciplinary debates. In particular, this book examines afresh the relationship between policing, borders, and social order through the lens of migration policing. By charting this new landscape of everyday contemporary policing, the book’s main goal is to advance understanding of novel forms of law enforcement in a global age. These new forms of collaboration direct attention to the way in which front-line enforcement agents through their everyday work recreate the border, and not just enforce it. As the book argues, the emphasis on borders and migration controls and the growing importance of it within inland everyday policing is a symptom of the new demands and challenges facing the state in exercising authority in a fast-moving, interconnected world, and its attempt to offer a semblance of order. Such challenges result in practice in the random, capricious, informal, and arbitrary operation of power, which relies on non-rational, magic-like elements to solve policing problems. Through an ethnography of the worlds of police and immigration officers, the book dissects the ethical, political, legal, and social dilemmas, tensions, and contradictions posed by the task of maintaining order in a deeply unequal globalized world. The new impetus to police migration is an insightful entry point to understanding law enforcement in a global age.

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Development and the Externalisation of Border Controls

Cited by 16 publications

References 41 publications

The externalization of border control in the global South: The cases of Malaysia and Indonesia

The externalization of border control in the global South: The cases of Malaysia and Indonesia

Manufacturing Obedience: Coercion and Authority in Border Controls

Policing the Borders Within

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