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Theoretical analysis reveals how knowledge-control regimes shape border transparency, highlighting selective disclosure mechanisms in UK deportation operations.
This paper offers a novel analytical framework to enhance understanding of freedom of information ( foi ) in borders and migration studies. Drawing on scholarship in science and technology studies which understands scientific activity in terms of ‘knowledge-control regimes’ (Hilgartner 2017), our first section proposes four analytics. These are: a focus on the constitutive power of interactions; a principle of symmetry when it comes to studying what and how things are concealed and how they are made public; a concern with the mediating role of devices and infrastructures; and attention to the cultural as well as legal regimes which shape the conduct and identity of the actors who populate a given field of information control. The second part puts these analytics to work in the study of a particular area of immigration enforcement: the UK’s use of charter flights as a political, logistical and symbolic practice that shapes its deportation operations.
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