The Deportation Regime

“The Deportation Regime is a welcome contribution to current debates about the politics of immigration and more specifically the role of deportation and exclusion in this field. It will be of interest to both scholars and students alike and it is a must read book for those concerned with the core themes that it covers.” - John Solomos, Ethnic and Racial Studies

“The Deportation Regime not only conveys detailed information about a large number of countries; it also provides exposure to a wide variety of archives through the diversity of the authors’ countries of training (Canada, England, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States), their careers (in law, NGOs, as well as the university), and the variation in the stages of their careers. Moreover, the editors did a fabulous job of selecting fourteen extremely well-written and illuminating essays that
nicely complement each other.” - Jacqueline Stevens, Perspectives on Politics

“In short, the essays comprising this book are empirically rich and analytically thorough. Through an examination of deportation, they confront ingrained perceptions of experiences of citizenship and provide challenging critiques of migration law, citizenship and rights. Thus, this book would be of interest to a wide range of potential audiences.” - Ines Hasselberg, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

“The Deportation Regime is an important and timely book, both for theory and for politics. A series of well-written case studies (from across the world) accompanied by a smart introduction by Nicholas De Genova, the collection urges us to see the undocumented migrant/sans papiers/deportable alien/stateless citizen as paradigmatic of our time, as norm rather than exception, and thus as constitutive of sovereignty and the political today.” - Charles Piot, author of Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa

“This valuable collection of essays treating deportation as a distinct form of state social control shows convincingly that deportation demands more specific attention from social theorists. The ethnographically rich and theoretically informed essays provide fascinating case studies on the functioning of the deportation regime in different national settings.” - Linda Bosniak, author of The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemma of Contemporary Membership

“This collection is truly impressive. It demonstrates the importance of deportation as a mechanism for producing citizenship and alienage, nations, states, and territories in both theory and practice.” - Bridget Anderson, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

“This volume does a superb job of theorizing deportation beyond a mere act; in doing so we get a greater appreciation of how such acts are intricately linked to nation-state projects under globalization and have economic implications. It also points out the implications such a regime has for individuals’ experiences of freedom.” - Joanna Dreby, American Studies