For this assignment you are asked to review a Home Office policy document:
Home Office (2010). Protecng Our Border, Protecng the Public. The UK Border Agencys Five Year
Strategy for Enforcing our Immigraon Rules and Addressing Immigraon and Cross Border Crime
(London: Home Office). Available at:
hps://webarchive.naonalarchives.gov.uk/20100303205641/hp:/www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sit
econtent/documents/managingourborders/crime-strategy/protecng-border.pdf?view=Binary
you are asked to make a
judgement on the policy put forward by the UK government in 2010. Make sure you comment
crically on the document. Idenfy the purpose, the main points, and the polical movaons
behind the policy. Then evaluate them. Think about the arcles and chapters that you have read,
what are the results of this policy? What impact has it had? Was it a good policy? A bad one? Was it
well informed? Are there any unstated assumpons in the document? Are there any addional
purposes of the policy that are not explicitly stated?
We want to know your opinion, BUT, you must always back it up with academic sources. If you think
it was a great policy, why? Who else supports this? What research has shown the posive impact of
it? If you disagree with the policy, also, why? Have any academics provided evidence of a negave
impact of it in their research? Tell us about it.
Reading list:
Who Counts as a Migrant? Definitions and their Consequences
Webpage by The Migration Observatory 2019 Essential
Globalization & crime
Book by Katja Franko Aas 2013 Recommended
Read Chapter 4: ‘The Deviant Immigrant’: Migration and Discourse about Crime.
‘An Inspection into the extent to which the police are identifying and flagging arrested foreign nationals to the Home Office and checking their status
Document by Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration 2016 Essential
Frontex Risk Analysis 2019
Webpage by Frontex 2019 Recommended
Policing Humanitarian Borderlands: Frontex, Human Rights and the Precariousness of Life in British Journal of Criminology
Article by Katja Franko Aas; Helene O. I. Gundhus 01/2015 Recommended
Enlisting the Public in the Policing of Immigration in British Journal of Criminology
Article by Ana Aliverti 03/2015 Recommended
Hubs and Spokes: The Transformation of the British Prison in The borders of punishment: migration, citizenship, and social exclusion
Chapter by Emma Kaufman Essential
still no way out – Foreign national women and trafficked women in the criminal justice system
Document by Prison Reform Trust 2018 Recommended
Read pages 5 through 13 as minimum
Immigration Detention in the UK
Webpage by The Migration Observatory Essential
Can Immigration Detention Centres be Legitimate? Understanding Confinement in a Global World in The borders of punishment: migration, citizenship, and social exclusion
Chapter by Mary Bosworth Recommended
Inside Immigration Detention
Book by Mary Bosworth 2014; 881438158 Recommended
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Introduction as minimum
Citizenship Deprivation, Security and Human Rights in European Journal of Migration and Law
Article by Lucia Zedner 2016 Recommended
Interdiction and Indoctrination: The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 in The Modern Law Review
Article by Jessie Blackbourn; Clive Walker 09/2016 Recommended
