300654 Going the other way: deportation, repatriation and (temporary) return (S) (SoSe 2021)

Return migration – forced and voluntary, registered and unregistered, organised and spon-taneous, individual or collective – has always been part of the migration landscape. For ref-ugees, repatriation is deemed one of the three durable solutions, next to resettlement and local integration. Repatriation, however, as a concept and a process, necessarily extends beyond the crossing of borders, involving not only physical return but also re-integration, with success measured not only by physical safety but also dignity and sustainability throughout the process. In this course we will be discussing a variety of triggers, incentives and the decision-making procedures that may foster or inhibit permanent or temporary re-turn, while also trying to challenge some of the rather essentialising notions of “home”, “rootedness”, “nationality” and “voluntariness”. Topics of individual sessions include, e.g. deportation, deportability, assisted return schemes, “departheit”, readmission agreements, migration-development nexus, migration infrastructures etc pp.

Bibliography

Recommended readings:

Biao, Xiang, Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Mika Toyota (eds.): Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2013.

Cassarino, Jean-Pierre: “Return migration and development: The significance of migration cycles”, Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies. Routledge, London: 2016: 216–222.

Cleton, Laura and Sébastien Chauvin: Performing freedom in the Dutch deportation regime: bureaucratic persuasion and the enforcement of ‘voluntary return’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46(1), 2020: 297–313.

De Genova, Nicholas and Nancy Peutz (eds.) The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space and Freedom of Movement. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.

Kalir, Barak: “Departheid: The Draconian Governance of Illegalized Migrants in Western States”, Conflict and Society, 5(1), 2019: 19-40.

Khosravi, Shahram (ed.) After Deportation: Ethnographic Perspectives, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Long, Lynellyn D. and Ellen Oxfeld (eds.) Coming Home? Refugees, Migrants, and Those Who Stayed Behind, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Majidi, Nassim: “Uninformed decisions and missing networks: The return of refugees from Kenya to Somalia”, Space, Populations and Societies, 2017, 1.

Massey, Douglas S.; Jorge Durand and Karen A. Pren: “Border Enforcement and Return Mi-gration by Documented and Undocumented Mexicans”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41(7), 2015: 1015–1040.

Schuster, Liza: “A Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut: Deportation, Detention and Dispersal in Europe”. Social Policy & Administration, 39, 2005: 606-621.

Valhi, Zana and Russell King (eds.) Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing: Discours-es, Policy-Making and Outcomes for Migrants and Their Families, Routledge, London, 2017.