Enduring Uncertainty: Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life

Focusing on the lived experience of immigration policy and processes, this volume provides fascinating insights into the deportation process as it is felt and understood by those subjected to it. The author presents a rich and innovative ethnography of deportation and deportability experienced by migrants convicted of criminal offenses in England and Wales. The unique perspectives developed here – on due process in immigration appeals, migrant surveillance and control, social relations and sense of self, and compliance and resistance – are important for broader understandings of border control policy and human rights.
Ines Hasselberg is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, and Associate Director of Border Criminologies research webpage. Ines completed her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Sussex in 2013. Her work has been published at the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice and Surveillance and Society. She has edited with Dr Heike Drotbohm the special issue 'Deportation, Anxiety, Justice: New Ethnographic Perspectives' (JEMS 2015 41(4)), and with Prof Mary Bosworth and Dr Sarah Turnbull the special issue 'Punishment, Citizenship and Identity: The Incarceration of Foreign Nationals' (2015, CCJ).