Reading List: The Meanings, Consequences and Geopolitics of Deportation

In recent debates, deportations have become such a widely accepted political ambition that there is little room to question the necessity of a supposedly more “efficient” deportation apparatus. Yet, many studies have shown for a long time how challenging the implementation of deportations are, that they are embedded in complex geopolitical considerations, and that deportations are often problematic from a (human) rights perspective. Last, but not least, they have devastating impact on the lives of deported people. We compiled this list and introduction in order to improve the knowledge of such critical aspects in public debates. It is addressed to researchers and students, journalists and the wider interested public.

The list was compiled in March 2024 by 

Judith Altrogge (judith.altrogge [at] uni-osnabrueck.de)
Leonie Jegen (l.f.jegen [at] uva.nl)
Laura Lambert (laura.lambert [at] leuphana.de)
Franzisca Zanker (franzisca.zanker [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de) 

The reading list as PDF 

Like people from all over the world, staff members at the ABI are deeply saddened and concerned by the events that have unfolded in Israel/Palestine since October 7, 2023. 

For all those seeking to better understand the deeper dynamics underpinning these events and their wider political context, the following academic sources can be a starting point. 

Please consult the online catalogue of the ABI library for further readings. The mentioned books and printouts of the articles are either already or will very soon be available at the ABI library:

Books

• Achcar, Gilbert (2011) ‘The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives’, Saqi Books.
• Asseburg, Muriel (2021) ‘Palästina und die Palästinenser: Eine Geschichte von der Nakba bis zur Gegenwart‘, C.H.Beck.
• Atshan, Sa’ed (2020) ‘Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique’, Stanford University Press.
• Eastwood, James (2017) ‘Ethics as a Weapon of War: Militarism and Morality in Israel’, Cambridge University Press.
• El-Kurd, Dana (2019) ‘Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine’, Hurst Publishers.
• Essa, Azad (2023) ‘Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance between India and Israel’, Pluto Press.
• Gordon, Neve (2008) ‘Israel’s Occupation’, University of California Press.
• Hasso, Frances S. (2021) ‘Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine’, Cambridge University Press (open access).
• Irfan, Anne (2023) ‘Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System’, Columbia University Press.
• Khalidi, Rashid (2009) ‘Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness’, Columbia University Press.
• Khalidi, Rashid (2020), ‘The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017’, Macmillan Publishers.
• Makdisi, Saree (2022) ‘Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial’, University of California Press.
• Pappé, Ilan (2006) ‘The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine’, OneWorld Publications.
• Puar, Jasbir K. (2017) ‘The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability’, Duke University Press.
• Sen, Somdeep (2020) ‘Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial’, Cornell University Press.
• Shafir, Gershon & Yoav Peled (2002) ‘Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship’, Cambridge University Press.
• Weizman, Eyal (2017) ‘Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation’, Verso Books.

Journal articles

• Barakat, Rana (2017), ‘Writing/righting Palestine studies: settler colonialism, indigenous sovereignty and resisting the ghost(s) of history’, Settler Colonial Studies, 8(3), pp. 349-363.
• Farsakh, Leila (2005), ‘Independence, Cantons, or Bantustans: Whither the Palestinian State?’, Middle East Journal, 59(2), pp. 230-245.
• Khalili, Laleh (2010), ‘The Location of Palestine in Global Counterinsurgencies’, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 42(3), pp. 413-433.
• Mhajne, Anwar (2019), ‘Gun Violence in Israel’s Palestinian Community’, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, October 30.
• Salamanca, Omar Jabary, Mezna Qato, Kareem Rabie & Sobhi Samour (2012), ‘Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2(1), pp. 1-8.
• Salamanca, Omar Jabary (2011), ‘Unplug and Play: Manufacturing Collapse in Gaza’, Human Geography, 4(1), pp. 22-37.
• Shohat, Ella (1988), ‘Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Victims’, Social Text, 19/20, pp. 1-35.