{"product_id":"deporting-black-britons-portraits-of-deportation-to-jamaica-9781526143990","title":"Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the last two decades, the UK has deported thousands of people to Jamaica. Many of these ‘deportees’ left the Caribbean as infants and grew up in the UK. \u003ci\u003eDeporting Black Britons\u003c\/i\u003e traces the life stories of four such men who have been exiled from their parents, partners, children and friends by deportation. It explores how ‘Black Britons’ survive once they are returned to Jamaica, and questions what their memories of poverty, racist policing and illegality reveal about contemporary Britain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on years of research with deported people and their families, \u003ci\u003eDeporting Black Britons\u003c\/i\u003e presents stories of survival and hardship in both the UK and Jamaica. These intimate portraits testify to the damage wrought by violent borders, opening up wider questions about racism, belonging and deservingness in anti-immigrant times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'In these extraordinary portraits of exile Luke de Noronha illustrates through human experience how racism operates in Britain and beyond. This is what we mean when we say Black Lives Matter.'\u003cbr\u003eGary Younge, author of \u003ci\u003eDispatches from the Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'De Noronha’s unique and intimate study of young people caught up in Britain's deportation machine reveals the damage done by Britain's immigration system. You can't understand modern Britain without understanding the lives of the people he writes about.'\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Trilling, author of \u003ci\u003eLights in the distance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'In this moving and memorable book, de Noronha provides an incisive and intimate portrait of postcolonial, neoliberal, austerity Britain from the ethnographic standpoint of Black Britons expelled from their home, labelled 'foreign criminals’ and cast into destitution as 'deportees' in Jamaica. Racialised, criminalised and finally 'migrantised', the young British men at the center of this book embody the postcolonial agonies of the UK from which they have been exiled by deportation.'\u003cbr\u003eNicholas De Genova, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Deportation Regime \u003c\/i\u003eand editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Borders of \"Europe\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Stories that stick in your throat and in your heart. Academic writing should be like this, less ego more poetry, because deep down we all understand that there is so much more at stake. I hope one day we look back at this beautiful terrible book and wonder how such cruelties were ever tolerated.'\u003cbr\u003eGargi Bhattacharyya, author of \u003ci\u003eRethinking racial capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A sensitive, engaging, and accessible account of how four black men's lives have been shaped by deportation.'\u003cbr\u003eEvie Lewis, \u003ci\u003eWasafari (Issue 114)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This book shows the devastating impacts of deportation on \"Black Britons\" and their loved ones, mapping the human consequences of racialised state violence and cruelty. Read it. get angry, and organise.'\u003cbr\u003eBridget Anderson, Director of Migration Mobilities Bristol\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This book will be of interest to scholars far beyond critical race studies alone, as the insights are relevant to scholars critically examining immigration policies, their consequences and especially its connections with racism, classicism and gender performances. But, perhaps more importantly, this book shows anti-racist academics and activists the need to challenge all forms of immigration control, as borders inevitably reconfigure race and racism.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEthnic and Racial Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Deporting Black Britons\u003c\/i\u003e should be read by anyone committed to the struggle against racism, police brutality, borders, and the actors and technologies that criminalise and “illegalise” the right to mobility.’\u003cbr\u003eBorder Criminologies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Deporting Black Britons: portraits of deportations to Jamaica is a rarity among academic texts – a pioneering and practical intervention that reframes theoretical discussions of state racism even as it encourages activism on the ground.'\u003cbr\u003eRace and Class\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Introduction\u003cbr\u003e2 Jason\u003cbr\u003e3 Ricardo\u003cbr\u003e4 Chris\u003cbr\u003e5 Denico\u003cbr\u003e6 Family and friends: Witnessing deportation and hierarchies of (non) citizenship\u003cbr\u003e7 Post-deportation: Citizenship and the racist world order\u003cbr\u003e8 Deportation as foreign policy: Meanings of development and the ordering of (im)mobility\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eAfterword, by Chris\u003cbr\u003eEndnotes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041008582999,"sku":"9781526143990","price":19.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526143990.jpg?v=1750948575","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/deporting-black-britons-portraits-of-deportation-to-jamaica-9781526143990","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}