Deportation limbo

<p><i>Deportation limbo</i> 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.<br><br>An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.</p>