1st Edition

Deportation, Anxiety, Justice New ethnographic perspectives

Edited By Heike Drotbohm, Ines Hasselberg Copyright 2017
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides new ethnographic perspectives on the intersections between deportation, anxiety, and justice. As an instrument for controlling international migration, 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 and deported migrants as... Read more

Introduction – Deportation, Anxiety, Justice: New Ethnographic Perspectives Heike Drotbohm and Ines Hasselberg

1. Balancing Legitimacy, Exceptionality and Accountability: On Foreign-national Offenders’ Reluctance to Engage in Anti-deportation Campaigns in the UK Ines Hasselberg

2. The Jewish State of Anxiety: Between Moral Obligation and Fearism in the Treatment of African Asylum Seekers in Israel Barak Kalir

3. The Management of Anxiety: An Ethnographical Outlook on Self-mutilations in a French Immigration Detention Centre Nicolas Fischer

4. ‘We Deport Them but They Keep Coming Back’: The Normalcy of Deportation in the Daily Life of ‘Undocumented’ Zimbabwean Migrant Workers in Botswana Treasa M. Galvin

5. Deportation Stigma and Re-migration Liza Schuster and Nassim Majidi

6. The Reversal of Migratory Family Lives: A Cape Verdean Perspective on Gender and Sociality pre- and post-deportation Heike Drotbohm

7. Deportation Studies: Origins, Themes and Directions Susan Bibler Coutin

Biography

Heike Drotbohm is Professor for Social and Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany.

Ines Hasselberg is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of Enduring Uncertainty. Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life (2016).