ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the (re)integration experiences of deported migrants, drawing primarily on El Salvador as a case study. The author outlines current U.S. immigration enforcement patterns and demographics of the deported population. She then turns to key trends in (re)integration research, including stigmatization, criminalization, social citizenship and belonging, transnationalism, and gendered stigma and shame. Based on an extensive literature review and original field research, she demonstrates how deportees’ (re)integration trajectories are uniquely shaped by their local context of reception as well as ways in which their experiences are shared across national borders. The chapter concludes by highlighting three promising directions for the study of deportee (re)integration: (1) disaggregated research with different segments of the deported population (i.e. women, children, and adolescents); (2) scholarship on available reception and reintegration resources and programs in deportee-receiving states; and (3) the collective behavior of return migrants and deportees.
