In this article I examine ‘Operation Nexus’, a collaborative initiative between the police and immigration enforcement in the UK, and its impact on foreign national and minority ethnic suspects of offending. I explain how strategic policing aims to manage migration around notions such as ‘high harm’ offenders, target those who appear ‘foreign’ as well as visible ethnic minority suspects, the latter of which may hold citizenship in the UK. The consequences of Operation Nexus are therefore wider than its stated aim because it legitimizes racial profiling by the police and has negative consequences on notions of belonging for racialized foreign nationals and citizens albeit in different ways. By presenting empirical research with those who implement Operation Nexus as well as those who experience it, I elucidate how the policing of migration revives and extends colonial premises that connect nationality, race and criminalization within the expanding and merging realm of contemporary criminal justice and migration control. I draw on Lerman and Weaver’s thesis that when contemporary criminal justice policies disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minorities, they create an unequal group of people that are exiled within their own society and disenfranchised from public institutions such as the police.

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逮捕（非）公民身份：国籍、种族和刑事定罪的监管移民关系

在本文中，我研究了英国警方和移民执法部门之间的一项合作倡议“Operation Nexus”及其对外国和少数民族犯罪嫌疑人的影响。我解释了战略警务如何围绕“高伤害”罪犯等概念来管理移民，针对那些看似“外国”的人以及可见的少数族裔嫌疑人，后者可能在英国拥有公民身份。因此，Nexus 行动的后果比其既定目标更广泛，因为它使警察的种族定性合法化，并对种族化的外国国民和公民的归属观念产生负面影响，尽管方式不同。通过向实施 Nexus 行动的人和经历过它的人展示实证研究，我阐明了移民治安如何在当代刑事司法和移民控制的不断扩大和融合的领域内恢复和扩展将国籍、种族和刑事定罪联系起来的殖民前提。我借鉴了勒曼和韦弗的论点，即当当代刑事司法政策不成比例地影响种族和少数族裔时，他们会创造出一个不平等的群体，他们被流放到自己的社会中，并被剥夺了公共机构（如警察）的权利。