Description: "Leave If You Can is a captivating ethnography that explores the scars of US intervention, the securitization of migration, and the social marginalization of young men in Honduras. Amelia Frank-Vitale challenges conventional understandings of deportation as exile, revealing it instead as an ordinary, yet no less violent, facet of everyday life."--Lauren Heidbrink, author of Migranthood: Youth in a New Era of Deportation
"Rigorously researched, Leave If You Can captures the ordinary violence of deportation that weaves seamlessly with the everyday violence of poverty in Honduras. Frank-Vitale writes with clarity and compassion against the cruelty of shifting global immigration policies, making this a timely and essential read."--Leisy Abrego, author of Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across BordersReview Quotes:
"The author exposes the hypocrisy of the term 're-integration, ' arguing that deported Hondurans are not out of place or unfamiliar; instead, deportation forces them to return to quite familiar exclusion, precarity, and insecurity. . . .The chapter on the 'hypervisible' migrant caravans provides a welcome foil to the dynamics described above, including the photo of a caravanero shouldering a backpack distributed by USAID to deportees."
-- "CHOICE"