Expanding the Racialised Surveillance of Migrants in the UK - Dr Monish Bhatia
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We are happy to welcome Monish Bhatia from the University of York to speak about his latest research.
14.00-15.30 18th April 2024
Hybrid: Online and in LT 8, Arts Tower
Electronic monitoring or tagging has been used for bail, criminal sentencing, and punishment since the late 1990s. However, through the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants) Act, 2004, the technology was drawn into immigration controls. Those deemed as ‘absconders’ are subjected to tagging, along with the former foreign national offenders. While in the criminal context, the tagging is authorised by the criminal courts – in the immigration context, it is used purely as an administrative measure (and therefore not considered as punishment). Drawing on previous and current research, I will first explain the technological developments in migration controls; followed by how these technologies of controls impact migrants; and finally, uncover the growing resistance to tagging and what shape and form this resistance takes. The talk will explore issues around race, surveillance, and violence.
Dr. Monish Bhatia is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of York. He is a criminologist who researches the intersection of racism, migration, state violence, surveillance and crimmigration. He has published several articles and book chapters, and is the co- editor of numerous books and issues including Media, Crime and Racism (Palgrave, 2018), Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, Media and Resistance (Palgrave, 2023), Critical Engagements with Borders, Racisms and State Violence (Critical Criminology, 2020), Migration, Vulnerability and Violence (International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2020) and Race, Mental Health and State Violence (Race & Class, 2021). In 2022, Monish received the British Criminology Society's Hate Crime Network award for his article in Critical Criminology Permission to be Cruel: Street Level Bureaucrats and Harms against People Seeking Asylum