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Based on extensive field research, Susanne U. Schultz analyses the social situations following deportation for Malian men - their supposedly »failed« migratory adventures -, the implications for their social environment and broader society. In light of the current migration and development policy of the European Union and its externalization to Sub-Saharan Africa, she provides insight in the still understudied issue of people's everyday life after forced returns, exemplifying the effects of intra-African and European deportation regimes and the reactions to them. In doing so, this ethnographic study creates empirical knowledge on key issues in migration research, policy, and practice in a charged debate

Die sozialen Folgen eines Staudammprojekts in Indonesien und des Baus eines Kohlekraftwerks auf den Philippinen werden analysiert. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Einstellungen der Bevölkerung zu der mit dem Bau verbundenen Zwangsumsiedlung. Diese wurden geprägt von der Informationspolitik der Regierung, der Berücksichtigung der Wünsche der Bevölkerung, von der Höhe der Entschädigungen, von Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten, Infrastrukturverbesserungen und Umweltschutzaspekten. (DSE/DÜI)

Deportees' reintegration is shaped by the contexts of reception in their countries of origin and the strength of their ties to the United States. For some, the deprivation and isolation of deportation is akin to a death sentence.

As deportations from the United States rose to unprecedented levels, a nationwide immigration enforcement program Secure Communities helped identify deportable noncitizens under arrest in county jails. Examining county‐level variation in deportation activity between 2008 and 2013, this paper contributes to immigration policy research by examining how county officials in some locations facilitated exceptionally restrictive deportation outcomes while others exercised the discretion to turn noncitizens over for deportation sparingly. Consistent with a hypothesized "tiered influence" relationship, but contrary to a "racial threat" hypothesis, Hispanic concentration predicts the highest levels of exercised discretion where Hispanic concentration is neither too small nor too large. Noncitizens under arrest seem to have benefited from above‐average Hispanic concentrations, except in counties where Hispanics exceed about 40 percent of the population.

Governments have long relied on detention to enforce immigration laws. In recent years, this practice has become an increasingly common feature of immigration law enforcement. At one point, the United States confined approximately fifty thousand people in immigration detention centers each day, setting it apart from the rest of the world in the size of its immigration detention system. It is not alone, however, in tapping the state's power to use detention as a means of regulating cross-border movement by people. Other immigrant-receiving countries, notably western European nations, also confine individuals suspected of violating immigration law. Governments do not promote immigration detention on the basis that detainees merit punishment. Rather, confinement is typically justified as a means of identifying potential immigration law violators, examining whether they have a rightful claim to remain in the country, and, if not, facilitating deportation. Though immigration detention on some scale is a common practice in immigrant-receiving nations, it is not without critics. With immigration detention's growth has come increased scrutiny from academics, advocates, policymakers, journalists, and others, especially since 2015. Academics grapple with how immigration detention operates, immigrants and advocates routinely challenge aspects of confinement with varying degrees of success, journalists disclose salient features of immigration detention, and policymakers occasionally engage in internal examinations of their own government's detention practices. Regardless of the source, these critiques have created a growing body of literature about immigration detention. This article groups selected discussions of immigration detention into broad categories: Statutes, Litigation, Conditions of Confinement, the use of Private Prisons to detain suspected immigration law violators, and Policy Development and Growth of immigration detention as a governmental policy. It also identifies works that provide a general overview of immigration detention.