Currently, two distinct bodies of scholarship address the increased volume and diversity of
global return migration since the mid-1990s. The economic sociology of return, which …

More than twenty years ago, one of us wrote:'Return migration is the great unwritten chapter
in the history of migration'(King, 2000, p. 7). Is this bold assertion still true? Almost certainly …

Greece has been at the epicentre of two overlapping 'humanitarian crises:'the economic
crisis and the crisis of refugees. Since 2011, as austerity policies have hamstrung the Greek …

Many, if not most, of those who are forcibly expelled from the country to which they have
migrated will not settle in the country to which they have been returned but will leave again …

This volume examines the relationship between hope, mobility, and immobility in African
migration. Through case studies set within and beyond the continent, it demonstrates that …

This paper introduces a collection of articles that share ethnographic perspectives on the
intersections between deportation, anxiety and justice. As a form of expulsion regulating …

The new field of deportation studies emerged at the intersection of immigration and security
studies in the early 2000s. Focusing on deportation raises new questions about migration …

The present exercise is a provisional effort to dedicate serious critical reflection to a variety
of keywords operating within contemporary discourses of power and resistance, which …

Detention and deportation have become keystones of immigration and border enforcement
policies around the world. The United States has built a massive immigration enforcement …

Based on ethnographic fieldwork among 'undocumented'Zimbabwean migrants in
Botswana, this paper examines the complex strategies 'undocumented'migrants employ to …