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The Social, Political and Historical Contours of Deportation (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
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The Social, Political and Historical Contours of Deportation (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Series: Immigrants and Minorities, Politics and Policy
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In recent years states across the world have boosted their legal
and institutional capacity to deport noncitizens residing on their
territory, including failed asylum seekers, "illegal" migrants, and
convicted criminals. Scholars have analyzed this development
primarily through the lens of immigration control. Deportation has
been viewed as one amongst a range of measures designed to control
entrance, distinguished primarily by the fact that it is exercised
inside the territory of the state. But deportation also has broader
social and political effects. It provides a powerful way through
which the state reminds noncitizens that their presence in the
polity is contingent upon acceptable behavior. Furthermore, in
liberal democratic states immunity from deportation is one of the
key privileges that citizens enjoy that distinguishes them from
permanent residents. This book examines the historical,
institutional and social dimensions of the relationship between
deportation and citizenship in liberal democracies. Contributions
also include analysis of the formal and informal functions of
administrative immigration detention, and the role of the European
Parliament in the area of irregular immigration and borders. The
book also develops an analytical framework that identifies and
critically appraises grassroots and sub national responses to
migration policy in liberal democratic societies, and considers how
groups form after deportation and the employment of citizenship in
this particular context, making it of interest to scholars and
international policy makers alike. "It is commonly surmised that
the increased flows of goods, ideas, finance and people are slowly
leading to the dissolution of boundaries between nation-states.
However, as the varied and excellent chapters in this collection
demonstrate, the enforcement of state power through detention and
deportation is still a real and growing feature of contemporary
political life. Expulsion has always been a moral sanction (think
of Adam and Eve being banished from the Garden of Eden or the
ostracism directed against dissidents in ancient Athens, who were
forced to leave for ten years). As the editors suggest, deportation
remains a means of enforcing a normative order ('a community of
values'), while the authors and editors of this book have expanded
the subject-matter to include the deportees' perspectives and the
effects of deportation on families, other potential victims and on
those whose social inclusion has been affirmed by the exclusion of
others. These studies will enrich and enlarge the study of the more
naked forms of state power." - Robin Cohen, Professor Emeritus of
Development Studies, University of Oxford "This wide-ranging,
well-researched, and highly informative work is a major
contribution to the growing body of scholarship examining the harsh
consequences of deportation around the world. The editors have
gathered an impressive group of scholars who craft an eclectic view
of how deportation has evolved, what it may signify, and how it now
works in various settings. With its inclusion of historical,
institutional, comparative, and finely-textured, sensitive
experiential studies, this book offers an important--if frequently
distressing--overview of phenomena that deserve our full
attention." - Daniel Kanstroom, Professor of Law and Director,
International Human Rights Program, Boston College Law School
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