Workbook
The Political Return
A Workbook for Those Returning Under Pressure — Deportation, Forced Return, and the Unwanted Homegoing
The return was not your choice. The preparation can be.
For the person facing deportation, forced return, or unwanted repatriation — and for the advocates and legal professionals supporting them through the preparation that legal counsel cannot do alone.
The Name It First Experience
When a return is forced, the person returning must navigate a country they may not have chosen. Your Return Preparation Document provides a structured framework: what arrangements to make, what safety considerations apply, and what personal resources you carry into an unwanted transition. The output is not a legal filing. It is Your Return Preparation Document.
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Sample questions
- What is the most important thing you need to prepare before the return — not logistically, but personally?
- What does going back mean to you — is it failure, survival, something else entirely?
- What do you want to know about yourself and your situation before you land?
Research basis
van der Kolk (trauma-informed care for people under acute stress and threat) / Golash-Boza (psychological and social dimensions of deportation and forced return) / Miller & Rollnick (motivational interviewing adapted for acute crisis states) / Bowlby & Ainsworth (attachment theory applied to relationship severance in forced return)
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