ABSTRACT
The concept of 'crimmigration' refers to the intertwinement of crime control and immigration control. It represents the distinct laws and legal processes that states employ as a means of exerting control over a sector of our global society. Crimmigration law lays the foundations for the system. It is an umbrella term for the interweaving of administrative immigration law and criminal law 'under conditions of interchangeability and mutual reinforcement'. There are four different elements to crimmigration law: immigration offences, deportation, accessorial liability and creative civil exclusions. The deportation of a non-citizen as a result of a criminal conviction is a second key element of crimmigration law. The crimmigration control system also parallels the criminal justice system through its physical segregation of 'undesirables'. Defensive technologies such as fences with razor wire and electricity continue to be exploited to their fullest extent, for both instrumental and symbolic reasons.
