Ines Hasselberg
Ines Hasselberg is a scientific writer with the EMCDDA. Before, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Centre for Research in Anthropology, CRIA-UMinho (2017-18), and at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford (2013-17) where alongside her research on citizenship, punishment and mobility she co-edited the international research network Border Criminologies. Ines has conducted extensive research on deportation, punishment, prisons, family life and migrant surveillance. Her work is published in several international peer-reviewed journals and edited books. Her book Enduring Uncertainty. Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life (Berghahn 2016) won the Prose Award 2017 (Anthropology) and was shortlisted for the 2017 BSA/BBC Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award.
At CRIA-UMinho Ines is currently developing the research project Uneven Borders. Citizenship, Mobility and Inequality (2017-19) funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. This project examines border control in Portugal, scrutinizing mobility as a marker of social (and racial) inequality. Through ethnographic methods, it examines the socio-legal processes that effectively produce deportable migrants, forms of surveillance exercised to enforce border control, and how deportability is experienced by foreign-nationals, with a particular focus on those who have been through the criminal justice system.
Ines completed her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Sussex (2013). Before, she worked in Mozambique and South Africa as an independent consultant, where she was involved in research projects on human security and firearms related violence. She holds a BA in Anthropology (ISCTE, Lisbon, 2001), an MA in Anthropology of Development and Social Transformation (University of Sussex, 2003) and an MSc in Comparative and Cross-Cultural Research Methods (University of Sussex, 2008).
At CRIA-UMinho Ines is currently developing the research project Uneven Borders. Citizenship, Mobility and Inequality (2017-19) funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. This project examines border control in Portugal, scrutinizing mobility as a marker of social (and racial) inequality. Through ethnographic methods, it examines the socio-legal processes that effectively produce deportable migrants, forms of surveillance exercised to enforce border control, and how deportability is experienced by foreign-nationals, with a particular focus on those who have been through the criminal justice system.
Ines completed her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Sussex (2013). Before, she worked in Mozambique and South Africa as an independent consultant, where she was involved in research projects on human security and firearms related violence. She holds a BA in Anthropology (ISCTE, Lisbon, 2001), an MA in Anthropology of Development and Social Transformation (University of Sussex, 2003) and an MSc in Comparative and Cross-Cultural Research Methods (University of Sussex, 2008).
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for, as is the need to concentrate on the political genealogy of the term, which culminates in the justification of “emergency” policies and the implementation of new measures of control. Yet, at the same time—when states govern undocumented or unwanted residents
through deportation and employ the notion of crisis for justifying irregular and often violent acts towards deportable subjects—a situation emerges that indeed shares key characteristics with the definition of crisis. Not only deportees, but also their families and other community members perceive the threat, the execution, and the outcome of
deportation as a radical disruption from the norm, a break of a situation considered normal, stable, and healthy. By means of distinguishing different levels of perceptions as well as rationales of linking deportation to the notion of crisis, the transformative element
inherent in deportation is revealed, which complicates popular and political notions of membership, security, and mobility.
This chapter discusses important issues regarding post-deportation studies, with respect to methods, positionality and social change. Drawing on preliminary fieldwork in Cape Verde undertaken in 2008, it reflects on what the data gathered so long ago may suggest and where it may fit in the existing literature. It argues that when examining policies, experiences and interests in (post) deportation, scholars may want to consider how their research approach can mobilise change, or at the very least, how consistencies found across (post) deportation studies may be articulated in a more visible way. Given the political and ethical dimensions of border control and border research, it suggests that more space should be given to in-depth reflections of researchers’ positionality, approach and motivations in researching post-deportation.
Meissner, F & Hasselberg, I. 2012. Forever malleable: the field as a reflexive encounter. In Hanna Snellman & Laura Hirvi (eds), Where is the Field? Exploring migration through the lenses of fieldwork. Studia Fennica Ethnologica. Finnish Literature Society: Helsinki.
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for, as is the need to concentrate on the political genealogy of the term, which culminates in the justification of “emergency” policies and the implementation of new measures of control. Yet, at the same time—when states govern undocumented or unwanted residents
through deportation and employ the notion of crisis for justifying irregular and often violent acts towards deportable subjects—a situation emerges that indeed shares key characteristics with the definition of crisis. Not only deportees, but also their families and other community members perceive the threat, the execution, and the outcome of
deportation as a radical disruption from the norm, a break of a situation considered normal, stable, and healthy. By means of distinguishing different levels of perceptions as well as rationales of linking deportation to the notion of crisis, the transformative element
inherent in deportation is revealed, which complicates popular and political notions of membership, security, and mobility.
This chapter discusses important issues regarding post-deportation studies, with respect to methods, positionality and social change. Drawing on preliminary fieldwork in Cape Verde undertaken in 2008, it reflects on what the data gathered so long ago may suggest and where it may fit in the existing literature. It argues that when examining policies, experiences and interests in (post) deportation, scholars may want to consider how their research approach can mobilise change, or at the very least, how consistencies found across (post) deportation studies may be articulated in a more visible way. Given the political and ethical dimensions of border control and border research, it suggests that more space should be given to in-depth reflections of researchers’ positionality, approach and motivations in researching post-deportation.
Meissner, F & Hasselberg, I. 2012. Forever malleable: the field as a reflexive encounter. In Hanna Snellman & Laura Hirvi (eds), Where is the Field? Exploring migration through the lenses of fieldwork. Studia Fennica Ethnologica. Finnish Literature Society: Helsinki.
http://bordercriminologies.law.ox.ac.uk/pains-of-field-research/
By connecting the notion of the corridor to the enactment and the experience of deportation, we wish to highlight a spatial, institutional and affective state of transit, which appears permanent and transitory at the same time.
essay sets out to address how development paradigms come
about within emerging sectors of development action, and
explores the implications. Three further issues will be
looked at, the need for better integration of demining into
the broader development goals of the country, the cost-
effectiveness of demining and the lack of attention being
paid to alternatives, and the finite nature of demining and
its tendency for self-perpetuation.
This dissertation was submitted to the University of Sussex in 2003, as part of the course work to obtain
the award of MA in Anthropology of Development and Social Transformation.