Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control

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 trai...