ABSTRACT
Th is paper draws attention to noncitizenship construction in privatised migration control, though this must be seen within a wider framework of private engagement with migration, including also facilitation. Privatisation in migration control is diff erent from in other sectors. Th e role of private actors in this sector in the construction of the constituency of noncitizens sets this apart from traditional privatisation discourses. Involving private entities provides new locations and modes of noncitizenship construction which may fall outside some traditional justifi cations. Th e way in which the private sector is thereby involved in both decision-making and the use of force is problematic for justifi cations of noncitizenship construction that assume the State as the principal actor in the construction.
