Divided Island: Haitian Refugees in the Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic resumes mass deportations of Haitians after a one year moratorium since the devastating earthquake in Haiti. This 15-minute short video, produced by PBS, investigates reports that Haitians are being wrongfully removed from the country. Human Rights activists say race plays a role in the treatment of Haitians in the Dominican Republic.
‘Deportation, non-deportability and ideas of membership’ by Dr Emanuela Paoletti, the latest in the series of Refugee Studies Centre Working Papers, is now available online.
“The growing number of foreign nationals that find themselves in a legal limbo whereby they are not officially members of the host country, yet cannot be deported, raises a number of important questions. What explains the fact that the state is unable to deport a significant number of deportable people? How does this affect our understanding of the state’s social regulative function and capacity? What does this tell us about the rights and obligations that link the state and non-deportable people? How can the link between the state and non-deportability be conceptualised? These questions are the at the core of this paper whose starting assumption is that deportation and non-deportability can be treated as two distinct concepts which shed light on shifting notions and practices of membership.”
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11-12 December 2009
Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
We are pleased to inform you that it is now possible to register in order to attend the conference on Deportation and Development of Citizenship on 11-12 December at the University of Oxford (map).
The aim of this conference is to encourage interdisciplinary and comparative scholarship on deportation, broadly conceived as the lawful expulsion power of states, both as an immigration control and as a social control mechanism. The conference will serve as a vehicle for bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, including politics, sociology, history, international relations, law, criminology and anthropology, interested in the study of deportation.
Confirmed guest speakers include Prof. Daniel Kanstroom, Prof. Antje Ellermann, Prof. Annemarie Sammartino, Prof. Catherine Dauvergne, Prof. Deirdre Moloney and Dr. Darshan Vigneswaran.
The programme of the conference (PDF file) is available and you can register online.
If you have any questions, please e-mail emanuela.paoletti@qeh.ox.ac.uk