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This chapter discusses important issues regarding post-deportation studies with respect to methods, positionality and social change. Drawing on preliminary fieldwork undertaken in Cape Verde in 2008, it reflects on what these data gathered long ago may suggest and where it may fit in the existing literature. It argues that when examining policies, experiences and interests in (post) deportation, scholars may want to consider how their research approach can mobilise change, or at the very least, how consistencies found across (post) deportation studies may be articulated in a more visible way. Given the political and ethical dimensions of border control and border research, it suggests that more space should be given to in-depth reflections of researchers’ positionality, approach and motivations in researching post-deportation.
I. Hasselberg—The paper was written when the author was working in University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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Hasselberg, I. (2018). Fieldnotes from Cape Verde: On Deported Youth, Research Methods, and Social Change. In: Khosravi, S. (eds) After Deportation. Global Ethics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57267-3_2
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