Introduction
Michał Kłusek
1. Notes for a Normative Theory of Deportation
Christopher Bennett
2. Deporting, Punishing and Wall-Building
Gideon Yaffe
3. Is Deportation Punishment (And Why Does It Matter)?
Bill Wringe
4. A Communicative Defence of Deportation
Michał Kłusek
5. Deportation Harms and the Rights of Citizens
Patti Lenard
6. Deportation Deferment for Immigrant Offenders
Barbara Buckinx
7. Excluding Refugees in Times of Emergency: Precautionary Border Measures and Egalitarian Commitments
Jan Turlej, Maciej Macuga
8. Deportation as Structural Injustice
Alex Sager
9. Theories of Punishment in the Practice of UK Deportation Law
Jonathan Collinson
10. Deportable Citizens? Hukou and Prison Transfer in China
Tian Ma
11. Legal Bases and Justifications for Deportation: The Chilean Experience
Romina Ramos Rodríguez, Roberto Navarro Dolmestch
12. Deportation as Prolonged Punishment: the Case of Tijuana’s Homeless Deportees
Alethia Fernández de la Reguera, Juan Antonio Del Monte Madrigal
Conclusion
Michał Kłusek
Biography
Michał Kłusek is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague. His research combines legal philosophy, psychology, and economics to examine criminal law and punishment, with a particular focus on the theoretical and empirical problems raised by criminal sentencing.
States’ resort to deportation is one of the defining political, legal, and normative issues of our time. This collection makes a significant and much‑needed contribution, addressing a surprising gap in contemporary legal and philosophical scholarship on deportation. Bringing together a refreshing diversity of arguments and perspectives, it not only illuminates the complexities of removal and exclusion but also challenges legal scholarship to rethink its assumptions and better reflect the changing societies in which we live.
Katja Franko, University of OsloStates regularly deport non-citizens who have been convicted of crimes—which can cause significant kinds of harm. Such practices require thorough normative critique: should such deportations be understood, and can they be justified, as punishments; or should they rather be understood, and can they be justified, as non-punitive administrative measures? This timely collection of papers marks a significant contribution to such a normative critique. It is, as any such critique must be, cross-disciplinary, drawing on political philosophy, on legal theory and doctrine, and on empirical research into the actual operations of deportation systems. It is also appropriately cross-jurisdictional, given the very different ways in which different states use deportation.
Antony Duff, University of Stirling
