Racial surveillance and the mental health impacts of electronic monitoring on migrants

Since the late 1990s, government has used outsourced electronic monitoring (also known as tagging) in England and Wales for criminal sentencing punishment. Under Asylum Immigration (Treatment of Claimants) Act 2004, s36, use this technology extended to immigration controls, individuals deemed ‘high risk’ harm, reoffending or absconding can be fitted with an ankle device subjected curfew. The tagging migrants is not authorised by court therefore considered a punitive sanction. It managed system treated administrative matter. Nevertheless, people who are tagged experience it imprisonment Drawing on data from eighteen-month ethnographic research project, article examines impact seeking asylum, completed their sentences offences. uncovers psychological effects mental health impacts such technologies control. sheds light how experienced racialised minorities, adds literature migration, surveillance studies, state racism violence.