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Over the last decade, scholarly writing on the subject of deportation in liberal states has expanded rapidly. The growth has very much reflected a rise since the mid-1990s in the use of deportation by Western states over the same period. Under a range of different nomenclatures, including expulsion, removal, involuntary departures, and port of entry “turn-arounds”, various categories of unwanted non-citizens, including as failed asylum seekers, convicted foreign nationals and irregular migrants, have been ushered from states in growing numbers. What has generally attracted state elites to use the power to deport—and scholars to study it—is that deportation (broadly conceived) is a particularly sharp and resonant way of asserting state power in the realm of border control. Deportation is an exercise of state authority that aims definitively to end the relationship of responsibility between the state and the non-citizen by forcing the non-citizen beyond the sphere of the state’s authority.
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Anderson, B., Gibney, M.J., Paoletti, E. (2012). Introduction. In: Anderson, B., Gibney, M., Paoletti, E. (eds) The Social, Political and Historical Contours of Deportation. Immigrants and Minorities, Politics and Policy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5864-7_1
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