Luke de Noronha
Luke de Noronha is an academic and writer working at the University of Manchester. He is the author of 'Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica’, and producer of the podcast Deportation Discs. He lives in London. He is on Twitter @LukeEdeNoronha.
Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, August 26, 2020 8:51 - 0 Comments
Profiles">Deportation Cuts: Stories of exile and survival Profiles
Over the last two decades, the UK has deported thousands of people to Jamaica, many of whom left the Caribbean as infants and grew up in the UK. Luke de Noronha, author of a new book on the painful and intimate life stories of these deportees now living in exile, presents snippets of their stories framed by music videos which speak to their biographies — an invitation to read, pause, watch and listen.
Blogs, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Friday, February 2, 2018 12:19 - 1 Comment
Comment">How to destroy a life: On one deportation among many Comment
Late on Wednesday evening, a charter flight took off, under cover of darkness, from an unknown location in the south of England, heading for Nigeria and Ghana. This did not make the news, but it transformed the lives of hundreds of people forever. Luke De Noronha — whose friend was on the plane — shares his personal reflections.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Monday, September 12, 2016 19:21 - 1 Comment
Analysis">Borders are a weapon of racism and austerity, not a solution to either Analysis
The Brexit debate has shown us that the progressive struggle against class and race-based oppression must start with fighting the rhetoric - and reality - of immigration controls, writes Luke de Noronha.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, October 1, 2015 14:06 - 1 Comment
Comment">David Cameron’s Jamaican Prison: A Show of Ignorance, Cruelty and Historical Amnesia Comment
On his visit to Jamaica this week, instead of addressing widening calls for historical reparations, David Cameron announced plans for a UK-funded prison on the island to transfer Jamaican offenders from the UK. Luke de Noronha examines the wider context.
Interviews, Politics - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 7:44 - 4 Comments
Interview">Bridget Anderson on Europe’s ‘violent humanitarianism’ in the Mediterranean Interview
Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration at the University of Oxford, speaks to Ceasefire's Luke De Noronha about Europe's response to the Mediterranean crisis and how borders are 'a dystopian project whose enforcement exposes the horrific violence of the state.'
New in Ceasefire - Thursday, December 12, 2013 16:16 - 2 Comments
Analysis">‘Twenty years too long’: Campsfield and the migrant activism discourse Analysis
Describing his experience of a recent 'Close Campsfield' protest, Luke de Noronha asks whether we should move beyond a communitarian redefinition of belonging and instead adopt a discourse that radically challenges the notion that people can be assigned a place in the world by the states that try to order it.
