Deportation limbo : state violence and contestations in the Nordics / Annika Lindberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindberg, Annika (E. Annika M.), author.

Contributor:

Manchester University Press, provider, publisher.

Series:

Political and administrative ethnography.

Political Ethnography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deportation--Sweden.

Deportation.

Deportation--Denmark.

Sweden--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Sweden.

Denmark--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Denmark.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 190 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Annika Lindberg is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg

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.

Contents:

Prologue

Introduction: deportation fantasies

1. The politics of deportation and the Nordic welfare state

2. What you get is a prison: detention in Denmark

3. Deporting with care: detention in Sweden

4. Politics that kill, slowly: the Danish deportation camps

5. The idea is to exhaust them: minimum welfare provisions in Sweden

Conclusion: state violence and its effects

Epilogue: Abolfazl’s death and other afterlives

Index.

Notes:

Made available via: manchesteropenhive

MUP Political Studies

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9781526160881

1526160889

9781526160867

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