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After Deportation

Ethnographic Perspectives

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  • © 2018

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Editors:
  1. Shahram Khosravi

    1. Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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  • Provides much needed insight into what happens to migrants and failed asylum seekers post-deportation
  • Offers a detailed comparative perspective across multiple regions
  • Makes an important contribution to the field of irregular migration research
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Global Ethics (GLOETH)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Shahram Khosravi
    Pages 1-14

  3. Fieldnotes from Cape Verde: On Deported Youth, Research Methods, and Social Change

    • Ines Hasselberg
    Pages 15-35

  4. Starting Again: Life After Deportation from the UK

    • Sarah Turnbull
    Pages 37-61

  5. Helping Women Prepare for Removal: The Case of Jamaica

    • Alice Gerlach
    Pages 63-79

  6. Back from “the Other Side”: The Post-deportee Life of Nigerian Migrant Sex Workers

    • Sine Plambech
    Pages 81-103

  7. Paying to Go: Deportability as Development

    • Michael Collyer
    Pages 105-125

  8. Deportees Lost at “Home”: Post-deportation Outcomes in Afghanistan

    • Nassim Majidi
    Pages 127-148

  9. “My Whole Life is in the USA:” Dominican Deportees’ Experiences of Isolation, Precarity, and Resilience

    • Tanya Golash-Boza, Yajaira Ceciliano Navarro
    Pages 149-168

  10. Making It as a Deportee: Transnational Survival in the Dominican Republic

    • Evin Rodkey
    Pages 169-186

  11. Post-Deportation Movements: Forms and Conditions of the Struggle Amongst Self-Organising Expelled Migrants in Mali and Togo

    • Clara Lecadet
    Pages 187-204

  12. Ripples Across the Pacific: Cycles of Risk and Exclusion Following Criminal Deportation to Samoa

    • Leanne Weber, Rebecca Powell
    Pages 205-229

  13. “Non-admitted”: Migration-Related Detention of Forcibly Returned Citizens in Cameroon

    • Maybritt Jill Alpes
    Pages 231-252

  14. Afterword. Deportation: The Last Word?

    • Nicholas De Genova
    Pages 253-266

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 267-276
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About this book

This book analyses post-deportation outcomes and focuses on what happens to migrants and failed asylum seekers after deportation. Although there is a growing literature on detention and deportation, academic research on post-deportation is scarce. The book produces knowledge about the consequences of forced removal for deportee’s adjustment and “reintegration” in so-called “home” country. As the pattern of migration changes, new research approaches are needed. This book contributes to establish a more multifaceted picture of criminalization of migration and adds novel aspects and approaches, both theoretically and empirically, to the field of migration research.

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“Too often deportation has been imagined from the point of view of the states and societies from which people are expelled. But what happens to people after they are deported? What forms of life do they create in the countries to which they are sent? What dangers and challenges do they encounter following ‘removal’? Theoretically nuanced, empirically rich, and geographically diverse, the essays collected in After Deportation fundamentally rethink the time and space of deportation. This book greatly enriches our understanding of post-deportation worlds.” (William Walters, Professor, Carleton University, Canada)

“Rich in ethnographic case studies, this excellent volume is part of a growing trend among critical academics who shed light on the other side of deportation. The different chapters trace, document and analyze diverse deportation trajectories, following the lives of those who suffered forceful or “voluntarily” removal from the societies where they thought and hoped they could live their lives. Contributors manage to strike an inspiring balance between, on the one hand, unique insight into the economic and social hardship that is involved in post-deportation existences, and, on the other hand, astute attention to the creative agency of those who must reinvent their lives after an abrupt physical, emotional and geographical interruption cause by deportation.” (Barak Kalir, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Shahram Khosravi

About the editor

Shahram Khosravi is Professor of Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden. He is author of Young and Defiant in Tehran, Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran, and ‘Illegal’ Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders

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