Enduring Uncertainty: Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life

188 Pages·2016·1.182 MB·English

by  Ines Hasselberg

Enduring Uncertainty
DISLOCATIONS
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Enduring Uncertainty
Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life
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Ines Hasselberg
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Names: Hasselberg, Ines, author.
Title: Enduring uncertainty: deportation, punishment and everyday life /
Ines Hasselberg.
Description: New York: Berghahn Books, - New York, [2016] | Series:
Dislocations; volume 17 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015035570| ISBN 9781785330223 (hardback: alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781785330230 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects. |
Aliens--Great Britain--Social conditions. | Aliens--Legal status, laws,
etc.--Great Britain. | Alien criminals--Government policy--Great Britain.
| Deportation--Government policy--Great Britain.
Classification: LCC JV7633 .H37 2016 | DDC 364.6/8--dc23 LC record available
at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015035570
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Contents
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Preface viii
Acknowledgements x
List of Abbreviations xiii
Introduction An Ethnography of Deportation from the UK 1
Chapter One T he Politics of Deportation 23
Chapter Two Living the Law 41
Chapter Three Surveillance and Control 75
Chapter Four Undecided Present, Uncertain Futures 96
Chapter Five On Compliance and Resistance 126
Conclusion 145
References 157
Index 167
PrefaCe
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S ubject: RE:
Date: Wednesday, 14 April 2010 17:05
From: Name and email deleted
To: Ines Hasselberg <[email protected]>
Hi Ines,
Well my partner is currently facing deportation back to Uzbekistan after
coming to the UK 19 years ago as a child with his family. The reason
being for his deportation is due to him getting a criminal record in 2003
however no one has contacted him up until 2008 after he enquired
about getting a replacement passport due to him losing his so we’re now
left wondering if we never did enquire about the passport would he
have been left alone. My partner was never aware that he was not a UK
citizen he assumed that his father had completed the appropriate paper
work and we never had any reason to doubt otherwise as he went to
school here, and lived like any other British citizen. We have four children
aged seven, four, two and the baby four months. The eldest not being
my partner’s biological child, and he has full contact with his father on a
regular basis. We have appealed the deportation at an immigration tribunal
and it was rejected so we are now in the process of waiting for a date to
go to the higher courts.
The effect it has had on our family is unspeakable, i had my two year old
early due to the stress of the court case coming up, we have got ourselfs
into E1000’s of pounds worth of debt in solicitors fee’s. The ‘not knowing’
what is awaiting in the future is really hard and the prospect of having to
go to Uzbekistan is very frightening for my partner and myself. He has no
family over there anymore and isnt very fluent in the language so he has
no idea of what he is going to do if he is sent back he has no money and
nowhere to go, how will he get a job with the poor language etc its all
going through his mind on a daily basis and he often gets that worked up
he ends up vomiting, for myself i have never been abroad so the thought
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