RSC seminar, 19 February 2025
RSC Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2025
Series convened by Professor Tom Scott-Smith and Professor Catherine Briddick
About the seminar
Professor Bosworth discussed her new book which explores how the UK’s immigration detention and deportation system turns people into monetized, measurable units on a supply chain.
About the author
Mary Bosworth is professor of criminology and the founder and codirector of the research network and website Border Criminologies at the University of Oxford. She is the coauthor of Bordered Lives: Immigration Detention Archive and the author of Inside Immigration Detention, Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women’s Prisons, Explaining U.S. Imprisonment and The U.S. Federal Prison System.