Abstract:听The U.S. is in the midst of a Great Expulsion. Record rates of non-citizens are forcibly expelled from the country each year, but little is known about their post-deportation experiences. This project draws from life history narratives of 100 persons deported to El Salvador since the mid-1990s. After outlining a comprehensive model of deportee re/integration, it shows how the unique context of return in El Salvador interacts with deportees鈥� national identities, affiliations, and histories of criminalization to construct divergent social and economic outcomes. The findings challenge pervasive logics upholding the deportation regime, especially that deportees necessarily 鈥渂elong鈥� in their countries-of-origin. Deportees鈥� narratives also offer suggestions to more humanely manage migration to the U.S. and deportee re/insertion abroad.