- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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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“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)
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-14
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Fieldnotes from Cape Verde: On Deported Youth, Research Methods, and Social Change
Pages 15-35
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Starting Again: Life After Deportation from the UK
Pages 37-61
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Helping Women Prepare for Removal: The Case of Jamaica
Pages 63-79
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Back from “the Other Side”: The Post-deportee Life of Nigerian Migrant Sex Workers
Pages 81-103
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- After Deportation
- Book Subtitle
- Ethnographic Perspectives
- Editors
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- Shahram Khosravi
- Series Title
- Global Ethics
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-57267-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-57267-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-57266-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-86117-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 276
- Topics