This panel convenes scholars from across the social sciences and humanities with varying personal proximity to deportation and forced return. Dominant discourses have constructed immigrants through the juxtaposition of the ideal subject (the hard-working immigrant or the good student, specifically the Dreamer) and the bad immigrant (one with a criminal record but also the undocumented mother or so- called mother of anchor babies). Except for a handful of studies, we know significantly less about the consequences of deportation, the experiences and settlement patterns of deportees in their “home” countries. Deportees find themselves in situations where some “home” countries actively disregard their citizenship, and in some cases state officials exclude deportees from labor and housing opportunities, adding further punitive consequences to their undesirable journey. While previous scholarship has largely focused on the proximity of “illegality” to deportation as the definitive immigration phase, Between Object & Subject intends to denaturalize this assumption by situating deportation not as the end of immigration but as the arbiter of membership and mobility upon being forcibly removed.