No place like home? The International Organization for Migration and the new political imaginary of deportation.
Programmes to encourage the return of migrants living with irregular status are prominent in many OECD countries. Bearing titles like ‘assisted voluntary return and reintegration’ (AVRR), they are often rationalized as a more humane alternative to forced deportation. Critics question their voluntari...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 48; no. 13; pp. 3060 - 3078 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=158758069&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 158758069 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1369183X 56F jtl: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies issn: 1369183X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2022 vid: 48 iid: 13 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 158758069 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1984218 ppf: 3060 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.7MB tig: atl: No place like home? The International Organization for Migration and the new political imaginary of deportation. aug: au: Fine, Shoshana Walters, William affil: European School of Political and Social Sciences, Lille Catholic University, Lille, France. Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. su: International Organization for Migration Emigration & immigration Adults Higher education OECD countries sug: subj: OECD countries International Organization for Migration Emigration & immigration Adults Higher education keyword: Deportation IOM migration political imaginary voluntary return policy ab: Programmes to encourage the return of migrants living with irregular status are prominent in many OECD countries. Bearing titles like ‘assisted voluntary return and reintegration’ (AVRR), they are often rationalized as a more humane alternative to forced deportation. Critics question their voluntariness, suggesting they are actually an extension of the deportation apparatus. While broadly sympathetic to these criticisms, this paper offers a novel perspective on AVRR. We argue AVRR is reshaping what we call the political imaginary of deportation. Focusing on the International Organization for Migration (IOM), a leading architect of AVRR, we insist scholars take seriously the visual images and narratives through which voluntary return is discursively constructed. First, we discuss the political imaginary, and clarify what this concept brings to deportation studies. Second, we present a mapping of the political imaginary of deportation as this appears within IOM information campaigns concerning AVRR. We organize this material in terms of three analytics: returnees as activists, return journeys as homecoming, and deportation as self-reinvention. In the eyes of many activists and migrants, deportation has very negative and painful connotations. We show that IOM reimagines the landscape of deportation in a positive light. We call this move the deportation twist. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2022 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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