Providing new and complementary transnational insights into the social reality of 'deportation', this book argues for an understanding of deportation as a process that begins long before, and carries on long after, the actual process of removal. Most importantly, it reasserts the emotional and normative elements inherent to contemporary deportation practices, emphasising the interplay between deportation, perceptions of justice, and national, institutional, and personal anxieties. A long overdue addition to the current scholarship on deportation studies, this book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
