Air deportation: (In)visibility, power and resistance

William Walters (1) , Clara Lecadet (2) , Cedric Parizot (3)

1 Carleton University
2 IIAC - Institut interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain
3 IREMAM - Institut de Recherches et d'Etudes sur les Mondes Arabes et Musulmans

Air deportation is an approach to the expulsion of people that takes seriously the systems of transportation that are central to these processes. This article introduces the idea of air deportation, embeds it in geopolitics and struggles over migration and borders, and argues that this perspective moves us beyond a Eurocentric view of expulsion. Then by introducing the various approaches and format of the contributions making up this special issue, it highlights to what extent documenting air deportation intervenes into a a complex visibility regime in which the ways in which information circulates is very much a part of contemporary forms of government and of migration management.

Mots clés: Air Deportation; Borders; Migration; Civil Aviation

Domaines: Science politique; Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

William Walters, Clara Lecadet, Cedric Parizot. Air deportation: (In)visibility, power and resistance. antiAtlas Journal, 2022, Air Deportation, 5. ⟨hal-03784319⟩