Deportation limbo : state violence and contestations in the Nordics /
Deportation limbo offers a political ethnography of deportation enforcement in Denmark and Sweden. It takes place in a time when deportation has emerged as a key priority in Northern European states' migration policy regimes, and when states are stepping up their efforts to address the so-calle...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Political and administrative ethnography.
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| Summary: | Deportation limbo offers a political ethnography of deportation enforcement in Denmark and Sweden. It takes place in a time when deportation has emerged as a key priority in Northern European states' migration policy regimes, and when states are stepping up their efforts to address the so-called deportation gap. The book takes the reader inside detention centres, deportation camps and migration offices, and explores how frontline officials deal with their task of pressuring non-deported migrants to leave, and the injurious effects of these efforts. Using the analytical frame of a continuum of state violence, the book details the tension-ridden enforcement of policy measures which, rather than enhancing deportations, render non-deported people stuck in precarious limbo. It brings up questions of the violence endemic to border regimes, and about racism, and bureaucratic exclusion in the Nordic welfare states. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [160]-184) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1526160870 9781526160874 |