Deporting Black Britons

Through the accounts of four men sent back to Jamaica, this book looks at how racism, national borders and the meaning of citizenship are tied together. Its focus is on how criminal justice, the making of people into illegal immigrants, and racial categorisation work together to produce people who can be deported in present-day Britain.

The author uses these individual lives to rethink race and citizenship across several scales, from personal experience to state policy. The result is a study aimed at readers interested in immigration, race and the politics of belonging.