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Sociologist #Migration #Asylum #State #Race #Bureaucracy #Surveillance #Violence @UoYSociology | Personal Ac (and views are mine)🌈he/him
Jun 18, 2022 13 tweets 5 min read
Home Office (HO) has decided to put GPS tags on refugees who were set for #RwandaDeportation and also on those arriving on boats. Here is my interview in @Independent very clearly highlighting as to why electronic tagging must not be used: independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
A thread (1/10) (2/10) Tagging is highly intrusive & experienced as punishment. And it is indeed a punishment in the criminal justice context. On top, HO is going to combine it with 'curfew orders' and 'exclusion zones'. So people will be confined and will not be able to enter/leave a location.