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MMB Reading Group: ‘Deporting Black Britons’ by Luke de Noronha
Wednesday 12 January 2022 at 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
This month the MMB Reading Group will meet to discuss Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica by Luke de Noronha (Manchester University Press, 2020).
What is it like to be deported from everything you know, exiled from parents, partners, children and friends? How do people who left Jamaica as infants
deal with their forced return? How do ‘Black Britons’ survive once they are returned to Jamaica, and what do their memories of poverty, racist policing and illegality reveal about contemporary Britain?
Based on years of research with deported people and their families, Deporting Black Britons presents stories of survival and hardship in the UK and Jamaica. These intimate portraits testify to the damage wrought by violent borders, opening up wider questions about racism, belonging and deservingness in anti-immigrant times. Visit website for more details.
To register for this meeting, please complete this form. A Zoom link will be sent out to attendees the evening before.
To learn more about Luke’s research on this topic you can listen to his MMB Insights and Sounds interview and read his blogpost from our Race, Nation and Migration series.