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Deportees' Time (Professor Shahram Khosravi, Stockholm University) & Book Launch for 'After Deportation' (Palgrave, 2018)

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Venue: Birkbeck Clore Management Centre

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This event is part of Borders, Racisms, and Harms: A Symposium taking place at Birkbeck, University of London on 2 and 3 May 2018, with generous support from the School of Law, Birkbeck. You may register for the Symposium here. #borderharms

Deportees' Time (5pm - 6.20pm)

Professor Shahram Khosravi (Stockholm University)

This paper is about the temporal aspects of (post)deportation. Deportation is not only the removal of a person spatially but also temporally. Many have spent a long time in the host country before being deported. They, particularly long-term residents, have worked, built networks, paid taxes, and spent time to become accustomed with language and culture. The time they invested to accumulate these forms of social capital is lost to a large extent. Deportees are dispossessed of their time. Some have left behind unpaid salaries (work time), others their youth. Being spatially removed means that they are robbed of an amount of time. The socio-political conditions of post-deportation generates its own temporality. That many, particularly long-term residents, experience post-deportee life as exile or diaspora reveals the fact that life is experienced by deportees as fragmented, interrupted, and scattered in the same way exile and diaspora are usually experienced in the form of a broken link between time and place.

Shahram Khosravi is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University and the author of the books: Young and Defiant in Tehran (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), The Illegal Traveller: An Auto-ethnography of Borders (Palgrave, 2010), and Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017); and is the editor of After Deportation: Ethnographic Perspectives (Palgrave, 2018). He has been an active writer in the Swedish press and has also written fiction.

Book Launch for After Deportation: Ethnographic Perspectives (6.30pm - 7.30pm)

Please join us for the London launch of After Deportation: Ethnographic Perspectives (Palgrave, 2018), a recently published collection of essays edited by Shahram Khosravi.

After Deportation analyses post-deportation outcomes and focuses on what happens to migrants and failed asylum-seekers after deportation. Although there is a growing literature on detention and deportation, academic research on post-deportation is scarce. The book examines the consequences of forced removal for deportees' adjustment and their 'reintegration' in so-called 'home' countries. As the pattern of migration changes, new research approaches are needed. This book contributes to establishing a more multifaceted picture of the criminalisation of migration and adds novel aspects and approaches, both theoretically and empirically, to the field of migration research.

Speakers: Shahram Khosravi, Michael Collyer (University of Sussex), Clara Lecadet (Interdisciplinary Institute of Contemporary Anthropology), Nassim Majidi (Samuel Hall), and Sarah Turnbull (Birkbeck, University of London)

This event is free and open to the public, however registration is required via Eventbrite.

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This event is part of the School of Law's 25th Anniversary celebrations. The School of Law, Birkbeck was founded in 1992 as a Department of Law with three members of academic staff. Over the last twenty-five years it has become a School comprising the Departments of Law and Criminology as well as the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, four research Centres, 40 members of staff and an overall student body of over 1,000. The School is proud of being a pioneer in establishing and developing a hub for the field of critical legal studies. While our national and international reputation has been forged through critical legal research, more recently we have gained recognition for critical criminological and activist research, socio-legal scholarship and policy-engaged empirical research. In recognition of this the last Research Excellence Framework exercise ranked us as being in the top 10 law schools in the UK and in the top 3 in London, while our research environment was judged conducive to producing research of the highest quality.

In this our 25th Anniversary year we will be holding a series of events reflecting on our history and successes as well as looking forward to the opportunities and challenges facing critical legal and criminological teaching and scholarship in the 21st century. Find out more about the 25th Anniversary celebrations here.

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