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Migrant Surveillance and State Power: Electronic Tagging of Asylum-Seekers in the UK 10.17863/CAM.26002 Ranjan, Devika Desai, Manali While the electronic tagging of asylum-seekers is often considered a humane alternative to detention, it is actually a tactic of Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’ that deeply constricts an individual’s physical, psychological, and social freedom. This study focuses on the experiences of asylum-seekers who have been electronically tagged— their struggles and their methods of resistance. The electronic tag administers a mandatory curfew on asylum-seekers, administered by a ‘crimmigration apparatus’ that is made up of the Home Office and its (in)security contractors. The apparatus neglects asylum-seekers and their cases through bureaucratic loopholes, lack of accountability, enforced paranoia, and dehumanization. Within the community, asylum-seekers are unable to work, volunteer, or participate in civil society because of the tag. Yet despite the psychological trauma and physical restrictions, electronically tagged asylum-seekers fight against this socio-political oppression through everyday and extraordinary acts. As the Home Office continues to expand the detention estate and issue new contracts to corporations, asylum-seekers are increasingly endangered by the propensity of further surveillance, privatized abuse, and restricted civil liberties. University of Cambridge 2018-07-20 Thesis Masters Master of Philosophy (MPhil) en Marshall Scholarship https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/278654 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/aa147803-952b-4d91-b1e3-29940b70f487/download 3ca65461c03b1f17c694549b562fcf0f https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/0a647f22-913e-43b2-8758-7ce0f50ea417/download 87eda9de84448d1f82354d60eee3eb5f https://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved/ asylum-seekers refugees Home Office UK G4S security surveillance technology state power biopolitics criminology electronic tag ankle bracelet immigration criminalization crimmigration hostile environment security contractors (in)security bureaucracy