Immigration Control, Mystification and the Carceral Continuum

Burnett, Jon

Abstract

This chapter examines immigration control in the UK as a core site where carceral logics are actualised, drawing on the analytical framework developed in Steven Box’s Power, Crime and Mystification. Box’s seminal text in 1983 provided a compelling account of criminalisation and social control in the UK, demonstrating their roles in reproducing a vastly unequal social order. And while immigration control was not a focus within this, this chapter argues that its mode of analysis is fundamental to understanding both its contours and functions, and how these are shrouded in ‘ideological mystification’.

Citation

Burnett, J. (2024). Immigration Control, Mystification and the Carceral Continuum. In D. G. Scott, & J. Sim (Eds.), Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm The Work and Legacy of Steven Box. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46213-9_11

• Online Publication Date: Dec 30, 2023
• Publication Date: Jan 15, 2024
• Deposit Date: Oct 26, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 31, 2025
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Series Title: Critical Criminological Perspectives
• Series ISSN: 2731-0604
• Book Title: Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm The Work and Legacy of Steven Box
• ISBN: 9783031462122
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46213-9_11
• Keywords: Surveillance; Asylum; Detention; Power; Borders; Mystification
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4416504
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-46213-9_11
• Contract Date: Jul 27, 2023