Deportation is a term that has only recently found a place in the history of anthropological theory and is not the sort of event that can be easily subjected to ethnographic study. As the now-ubiquitous “remedy” to illegalized migration, however, deportation has become central to the experiences of a vast array of diverse migrant communities as well as migrant-sending communities, on a global scale, and must therefore be considered inseparable from the anthropology of migration.