The deadline for submitting abstracts to this session has been extended to Friday February 13th 2010.

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2010, 1st-3rd September, London

 

Deportation Geographies

 

Convenors: Clare Newstead (Nottingham Trent University)

 

In recent years, many governments in North America and Western Europe passed amendments to their immigration legislation making it easier to deport (or 'remove') criminally convicted non-nationals.  The changes have extended the grounds for 'automatic deportation' and limited avenues for appeal; they have arrived with new mechanisms to engage local police authorities and prison officials in the identification of foreign-born offenders, and financial incentives for offenders to encourage voluntary and early removal.  Geographers have shown an increased interest in penal geographies (e.g. Bonds 2009; Gilmore 2007; Peck 2003), and contributed extensively to debates about migration and new border technologies, particularly in relation to asylum seekers and undocumented workers (e.g. Coleman 2007; Sparke 2006; Varsanyi 2008; Winders 2007; Yuval-Davis et al 2005), yet there has been relatively little specific engagement with the geographies producing, and produced by, the deportation of foreign-born offenders.  This session seeks papers from different disciplinary perspectives that engage directly with diverse aspects of criminal deportation.  While initiatives to accelerate the removal of non-national offenders are embedded in national security agendas and the pressures on neo-liberal welfare states to mitigate the costs of an expanding prison population, papers are encouraged which explore all aspects of the deportation of non-national offenders.  Issues papers might address include, but are not limited to: 

 

·  Historical antecedents and the significance of past spatial relationships for contemporary deportation geographies

·  The practices, knowledges and institutions that convene to produce 'deportable subjects'

·  The everyday embodied geographies of those removed, those who remain, and those asked to accommodate 'criminal' returnees

·  Scalar strategies of resistance to deportation 

·  Connections between the award of a 'double punishment' to non-citizen offenders and particular forms of citizenship, national identity and 'global reputation'

·  The significance of punishment interrupted and exported for recent approaches to the neoliberal security state

·  The geographical imaginaries that underpin and inform deportation policies, as well as strategies to resist removal

·  The interdependence of national 'secure communities' on the ability of deporting states to shift responsibility for criminality 

 

Please submit abstracts of 250 words to Clare Newstead by February 13th 2010.  Queries and further ideas are also welcome.

 
Clare Newstead
Senior Lecturer in International Studies
Subject Leader for Global Studies
School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, NG11 8NS, Ph: +44 115 848 3105, Fax: +44 115 848 6385
 
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