Whose Security?: The Deportation of Foreignnational Offenders from the UK

During the past decades, immigration policies have been refined to broaden eligibility for deportation and allow easier removal of unwanted foreign nationals. Deportation is today a normalised and distinct form of state power. It is a practice that is imbricated by anxiety, uncertainty and unrest that elicits different perceptions of justice, injustice and entitlements. Public authorities often justify deportation policies as measures to respond to anxieties over security and migration, but such policies also create uncertainty and anxiety among ‘deportable’ migrants and their families. When calling for a critical anthropology of security, Daniel Goldstein emphasises the importance of recognising ‘the