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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