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This chapter illuminates the life ways that take shape after long-term legal permanent residents convicted of crimes face deportation. Amid structural challenges, many deportees in the Dominican Republic nevertheless resolve to employ transnational survival strategies by working as tour guides and as call centre agents for outsourced US business. These former US residents neither settled in the USA by choice nor returned to their country of birth by choice, creating a scenario that complicates notions of “home.” These deportees face the repercussion of a sort of extended “liminal legality” in which legal permanent resident status turns out to be tenuous. Though rendered by state power unfit to live in their home, deportees assert their agency and create linkages between two conflicting notions of “home.”
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Rodkey, E. (2018). Making It as a Deportee: Transnational Survival in the Dominican Republic. In: Khosravi, S. (eds) After Deportation. Global Ethics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57267-3_9
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