Section 1: Conceptual framework for understanding private participation -- Chapter 1. 'A hotel with guaranteed occupancy', to what extent does an immigration-industrial complex exist in the UK? / Rebecca Flynn -- Chapter 2. 'National security immigration market in the United States following 9/11' / Alexandra McKelvi -- Chapter 3. 'If the state has a blind spot, it also turns a blind eye' (Vasanthakumar) An analysis of the unaddressed and unintended consequences of privatising migration control / Mariam Tapponi -- Section 2: Immigration detention and deportation -- Chapter 4. 'Institutionalised uncertainty': The extent to which indefinite detention affects immigration detainees' acceptance of precarious 'paid activities' / Sam I'Anson -- Chapter 5. How is accountability determined when private actors are involved in the deportation of irregular migrants? / Martha Price -- Chapter 6. To what extent does the privatisation of UK detention centres cause the erosion of the Article 3 ECHR rights of female migrant detainees and the accountability of the state in relation to this? / Rebecca Chapman -- Chapter 7. In whose best interests? The UK's implementation of Child Rights for Unaccompanied Minors amidst competing legal, economic, social and humanitarian considerations / Katharina Lee.