![]() ![]() Taking us on a journey through the landscapes of the Swedish and Danish detention and deportation systems, Lindberg's book unveils deportation as a form of state violence, which suspends people's lives and traps them in indefinite, deadly, limbo. 'In a world where borders are increasingly becoming sites of violence and death as well as of resistance and contestation, Deportation limbo provides a thorough analysis and a powerful critique of the daily operation of states' mobility control regimes. The book is indispensable reading for scholars of migration and asylum - but also for those seeking to understand how racism works its way through contemporary European states, constructing the lives of migrant others as exploitable, disposable and deportable.Īrshad Isakjee, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Liverpool Their stories and testimonies are written up with compassion and grace. Moreover, it is underpinned by exhaustive ethnographic research with people on the sharp end of Nordic immigration control. For people who have experienced European migration and asylum regimes, and scholars who research semi-carceral systems of border regulation, Lindberg's theorisation of a "Deportation limbo" is compelling and convincing in equal measure. ![]() 'Annika Lindberg has provided an essential piece of scholarship that analyses Nordic migration regimes.
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