Countries with strict immigration policies often resort to deportation measures to reduce their stocks of illegal …. This paper studies the optimizing behavior of undocumented immigrants who continuously face the risk of deportation … uncertainty with respect to the length of stay abroad unambiguously reduces the desired migration duration and may trigger a …

become more exposed to illegal work relations, harassment and deportation through the Russian authorities. Especially illegal …

relies on increases in the deportation rate driven by the introduction of the Secure Communities (SC) program, an immigration … for the deportation rate by interacting the introduction of SC with the local presence of likely undocumented in 2005 …, prior to the introduction of SC. We document a surge in local deportation rates under SC, and we show that deportations …

Politicians often mention immigration enforcement, and deportation in particular, as a means to assert state … sovereignty. The scholarship on deportation in philosophy and political anthropology also names exclusion as a founding act of … sovereignty. This paper looks at deportation through an event that is interpreted as regaining sovereignty by a State, that is …