Deporting Black Britons

Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica

Luke de Noronha

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English

Manchester University Press
01 September 2020

Social discrimination; Migration, immigration & emigration; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: Manchester University Press

In the last two decades, the UK has deported thousands of people to Jamaica.

Many of these 'deportees' left the Caribbean as infants and grew up in the UK. Deporting Black Britons traces the life stories of four such men who have been exiled from their parents, partners, children and friends by deportation. It explores how 'Black Britons' survive once they are returned to Jamaica, and questions what their memories of poverty, racist policing and illegality reveal about contemporary Britain.

Based on years of research with deported people and their families, Deporting Black Britons presents stories of survival and hardship in both the UK and Jamaica. These intimate portraits testify to the damage wrought by violent borders, opening up wider questions about racism, belonging and deservingness in anti-immigrant times.

'In these extraordinary portraits of exile Luke de Noronha illustrates through human experience how racism operates in Britain and beyond. This is what we mean when we say Black Lives Matter.'

Gary Younge, author of Dispatches from the Diaspora

'Stories that stick in your throat and in your heart. Academic writing should be like this, less ego more poetry, because deep down we all understand that there is so much more at stake. I hope one day we look back at this beautiful terrible book and wonder how such cruelties were ever tolerated.'

Gargi Bhattacharyya, author of Rethinking racial capitalism

By: Luke de Noronha
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781526143990
ISBN 10: 1526143992
Series: Manchester University Press
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 September 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1 Introduction 2 Jason 3 Ricardo 4 Chris 5 Denico 6 Family and friends: Witnessing deportation and hierarchies of (non) citizenship 7 Post-deportation: Citizenship and the racist world order 8 Deportation as foreign policy: Meanings of development and the ordering of (im)mobility Conclusion Afterword, by Chris Endnotes -- .

Luke de Noronha is an academic and writer working at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre at UCL. He has written widely on the politics of immigration, racism and deportation and has produced a podcast called Deportation Discs. He grew up in Manchester and now lives in London.

Reviews for Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica

'De Noronha's unique and intimate study of young people caught up in Britain's deportation machine reveals the damage done by Britain's harsh immigration system. You can't understand modern Britain without understanding the lives of the people he writes about.' Daniel Trilling, author of Lights in the distance -- .