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The Audio Long Read

From the archive: Life after deportation: ‘No one tells you how lonely you’re going to be’

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2020: The Windrush scandal brought the cruelty of Britain’s deportation policies to light, but the practice continues to this day – and shockingly, it is made possible by UK aid money. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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The Guardian archive Long Read.

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I'm Luke Deenerona, writer and lecturer, an author of Life After Deportation.

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No one tells you how lonely you're going to be. Published in August 2020.

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From 2006 onwards the UK prioritized the deportation of people with criminal records,

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so-called foreign criminals. Many had lived in the UK since they were children,

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but for one reason or another hadn't regularised their immigration status.

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I became interested in this group, partly because familiar arguments about deservingness and victim

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HUD didn't really work very well for them, but also because their stories demand that we connect

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