Supply Chain Justice

Mary Bosworth

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Author
Mary Bosworth
Publish Date
2024-12-17
Subtitle
The Logistics of British Border Control
Book Type
Hardcover
Number of Pages
216
Publisher Name
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691259860
ISBN-13
9780691259864
citemno
274310
SKU
9780691259864

Description

In The Uk's Fully Outsourced Immigration Detainee Escorting System, Private Sector Security Employees Detain, Circulate And Deport Foreign National Citizens. Run And Organized Like A Supply Chain, This System Dehumanises Those Who Are Detained And Deported, Treating Them As If They Were Packages To Be Moved From Place To Place And Relying On Poorly Paid, Minimally Trained Staff To Do So. In Supply Chain Justice, Mary Bosworth Offers The First Empirically Grounded, Scholarly Analysis Of The British Detention And Deportation System. Drawing On Four Years Of Extensive Ethnographic Research, Bosworth Examines What Keeps The System In Place And Whether It Might Be Effectively Challenged. Told By A Senior Manager That This Is A Logistics Business, Bosworth Documents How The Public And Private Sectors Have Built A Supply Chain In Which People's Humanity Is Transformed Both Symbolically And Tangibly Through Administrative Processes And Bureaucracy Into Monetized, Measurable Units. Like All Logistics, The System Has Failure Built Into It. The Contract Does Not Seek To Eradicate Risk But Rather To Manage It, Determining Responsibility And Apportioning A Financial Value To Such Failures As Delay, Escape, Aborted Flight Or Death In Custody. Front-line Workers And Managers Depoliticise And Normalise Their Efforts By Casting Their Duties In Familiar Bureaucratic Terms, With Targets, Service Level Agreements And Key Performance Indicators. Focusing On First-hand Accounts From Workers And Lengthy Observation And Document Analysis, Bosworth Explores The Impact Of Border Logistics In Order To Ask What It Would It Take To Build Inclusive Infrastructures Rather Than Those Designed To Exclude-- Provided By Publisher.,How The Uk's Immigration Detention And Deportation System Turns People Into Monetized, Measurable Units On A Supply Chain In The Uk's Fully Outsourced Immigration Detainee Escorting System, Private Sector Security Employees Detain, Circulate And Deport Foreign National Citizens. Run And Organized Like A Supply Chain, This System Dehumanises Those Who Are Detained And Deported, Treating Them As If They Were Packages To Be Moved From Place To Place And Relying On Poorly Paid, Minimally Trained Staff To Do So. In Supply Chain Justice, Mary Bosworth Offers The First Empirically Grounded, Scholarly Analysis Of The British Detention And Deportation System. Drawing On Four Years Of Extensive Ethnographic Research, Bosworth Examines What Keeps The System In Place And Whether It Might Be Effectively Challenged.told By A Senior Manager That This Is A Logistics Business, Bosworth Documents How The Public And Private Sectors Have Built A Supply Chain In Which People's Humanity Is Transformed Both Symbolically And Tangibly Through Administrative Processes And Bureaucracy Into Monetized, Measurable Units. Like All Logistics, The System Has Failure Built Into It. The Contract Does Not Seek To Eradicate Risk But Rather To Manage It, Determining Responsibility And Apportioning A Financial Value To Such Failures As Delay, Escape, Aborted Flight Or Death In Custody. Front-line Workers And Managers Depoliticise And Normalise Their Efforts By Casting Their Duties In Familiar Bureaucratic Terms, With Targets, Service Level Agreements And Key Performance Indicators. Focusing On First-hand Accounts From Workers And Lengthy Observation And Document Analysis, Bosworth Explores The Impact Of Border Logistics In Order To Ask What It Would It Take To Build Inclusive Infrastructures Rather Than Those Designed To Exclude-- Provided By Publisher.