Life after deportation
What happens to people after they are deported? And how do post-deportation practices and policies affect the lives of migrants?
These are some of the questions asked in the new well-reviewed book “After Deportation. Ethnographic Perspectives” edited by Shahram Khosravi. In which DIIS’ researcher Sine Plambech contributes with a chapter on the life after deportation among Nigerian women migrants.
Among the contributors are Nicolas De Genova, Ines Hesselberg, Sarah Turnbull, Alice Gerlach, Michael Collyer, Nassim Majidi, Tanya Golash-Boza, Evin Rodkey, Clara Lecadet Leanne Weber and Maybritt Jill Alpes.
Several scholars have praised the book, calling it an enrichment of the post-deportation field. Professor William Walters from Carleton University, Canada, has made the following remarks:
“Too often deportation has been imagined from the point of view of the states and societies from which people are expelled. But what happens to people after they are deported? What forms of life do they create in the countries to which they are sent? What dangers and challenges do they encounter following ‘removal’?Theoretically nuanced, empirically rich, and geographically diverse, the essays collected in After Deportation fundamentally rethink the time and space of deportation. This book greatly enriches our understanding of post-deportation worlds.” (Professor William Walters from Carleton University, Canada)
In the chapter “Back from ‘the Other Side’: The Post-deportee Life of Nigerian Migrant Sex Workers” Sine Plambech draws on her extensive ethnographic fieldwork, and provides a gendered perspective on the workings of post-deportation in the context of trafficking, arguing in her chapter that well-intentional practices and policies on return and reintegration of women migrants often end up complicating the women’s situation rather than securing it.
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