Deportation, Anxiety, Justice
This book provides new ethnographic perspectives on the intersections between deportation, anxiety, and justice. As an instrument for controlling international migration, deportation policies may be justified by public authorities as measures responding to anxieties over (unregulated) migration. At the same time, they also bring out uncertainty and unrest to deportable and deported migrants as well as to their social and institutional environments, in which this act of the state may appear deeply unjust.
Providing new and complementary insights into what deportation as a legal and policy measure actually embraces in social reality, this book argues for an understanding of deportation as a process that begins long before (and carries on long after) the removal from one country to another has taken place. It provides a transnational perspective over the deportation corridor, covering different places, sites, actors, and institutions. Most importantly, it reasserts the emotional and normative elements inherent to contemporary deportation policies and practices, emphasising the interplay between deportation, perceptions of justice, and national, institutional, and personal anxieties.
Written by leading experts in the field, the contributions cover a broad spectrum of geographical sites, deportation practices and perspectives, bringing together a long overdue addition to the current scholarship on deportation studies.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Heike Drotbohm is Professor for Social and Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany.
Ines Hasselberg is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of Enduring Uncertainty. Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life (2016).
Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies
Series editor: Paul Statham
Director, Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR), University of Sussex, UK
The Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies series publishes the results of high-quality, cutting-edge research that addresses key questions relating to ethnic relations, diversity and migration. The series is open to a range of disciplines and brings together research collaborations on specific defined topics on all aspects of migration and its consequences, including migration processes, migrants and their experiences, ethnic relations, discrimination, integration, racism, transnationalism, citizenship, identity and cultural diversity. Contributions are especially welcome when they are the result of comparative research, either across countries, cities or groups. All articles have previously been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS), which has a rigorous peer review system. Collective volumes in this series are either the product of Special Issues published in the journal or published articles that the Editor has selected from individual submissions.
Titles in the series:
International Organisations and the Politics of Migration
Edited by Martin Geiger and Antoine Pcoud
Regulation of Speech in Multicultural Societies
Edited by Marcel Maussen and Ralph Grillo
Deportation, Anxiety, Justice
New ethnographic perspectives
Edited by Heike Drotbohm and Ines Hasselberg
Deportation, Anxiety, Justice
This book provides new ethnographic perspectives on the intersections between deportation, anxiety, and justice. As an instrument for controlling international migration, deportation policies may be justified by public authorities as measures responding to anxieties over (unregulated) migration. At the same time, they also bring out uncertainty and unrest to deportable and deported migrants as well as to their social and institutional environments, in which this act of the state may appear deeply unjust.
Providing new and complementary insights into what deportation as a legal and policy measure actually embraces in social reality, this book argues for an understanding of deportation as a process that begins long before (and carries on long after) the removal from one country to another has taken place. It provides a transnational perspective over the deportation corridor, covering different places, sites, actors, and institutions. Most importantly, it reasserts the emotional and normative elements inherent to contemporary deportation policies and practices, emphasising the interplay between deportation, perceptions of justice, and national, institutional, and personal anxieties.
Written by leading experts in the field, the contributions cover a broad spectrum of geographical sites, deportation practices and perspectives, bringing together a long overdue addition to the current scholarship on deportation studies.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Heike Drotbohm is Professor for Social and Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany.
Ines Hasselberg is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of Enduring Uncertainty. Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life (2016).
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