The seminar investigates deportation as a sociologically significant form of forced mobility and as a constitutive element of contemporary migration and border regimes. It introduces students to central theoretical approaches to deportation in relation to state power, citizenship, deportability, nationalism, race, crimmigration, coloniality, and global inequality. In addition, the seminar engages comparative empirical research on deportation practices, protest against deportation, and the post-deportation experiences of affected individuals and communities. The course places particular emphasis on global and international comparison and enables students to connect conceptual reflection with empirical analysis.
