Editorial Introduction. Deportation, Anxiety, Justice: New Ethnographic Perspectives

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2014.957171, Forthcoming

Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship Research Paper No. 2539569

13 Pages Posted: 18 Dec 2014

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Heike Drotbohm

Institut für Ethnologie, University of Freiburg

Ines Hasselberg

University of Oxford - Border Criminologies

Date Written: 2014

Abstract

This paper introduces a collection of papers that share ethnographic perspectives on the intersections between deportation, anxiety and justice. As a form of expulsion regulating human mobility, 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/deported migrants and their families. Providing new and complementary insights into what “deportation” as a legal and policy measure actually embraces in social reality, this special issue 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 takes place. It provides a transnational perspective over the “deportation corridor”, covering different places, sites, actors and institutions. Furthermore, it re-asserts the emotional and normative elements inherent to deportation policies and practices emphasising the interplay between deportation, perceptions of justice and national, institutional and personal anxieties. The papers cover a broad spectrum of geographical sites, deportation practices and perspectives and are a significant and long overdue contribution to the current state of the art in deportation studies.

Keywords: Deportation, Justice, Anxiety, Ethnography

Suggested Citation

Drotbohm, Heike and Hasselberg, Ines, Editorial Introduction. Deportation, Anxiety, Justice: New Ethnographic Perspectives (2014). Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2014.957171, Forthcoming, Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship Research Paper No. 2539569, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2539569

Heike Drotbohm (Contact Author)

Institut für Ethnologie, University of Freiburg ( email )

Werthmannstr. 10
Freiburg, D-79085
Germany

Ines Hasselberg

University of Oxford - Border Criminologies ( email )

Manor Road Building
Manor Rd
Oxford, OX1 3UQ
United Kingdom

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