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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
7. Deportees Lost at “Home”: Post-deportation Outcomes in Afghanistan
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Abstract
Afghan deportees are, in their own words, at a loss in negotiating their post-return lives, a common marker among deported migrants. In Afghanistan, the added danger is that deportees may find themselves in situations of greater threat than their lives represented before their migration, adding to their reasons to leave again. Through empirical research led in Afghanistan, this chapter discusses the psychosocial implications of deportation for men, unaccompanied minors, women, and families forcibly returned from Iran and interviewed in the immediate post-deportation phase. Findings are analysed through the prism of psychosocial wellbeing, and Cassarino’s emphasis on preparedness for sustainable returns. The methodology is based on a longitudinal research comparing data from 2008 to 2016 on deportation trends from Iran to Afghanistan (Samuel Hall in Deportations of Afghans from Iran: A Post-Deportation Protection Assessment, Afghanistan, 2017).