US deportations funnel migrants into Central African Republic amid regional instability and neocolonial patterns
Original framing: “Migrants deported from US, including an Iranian woman, arrive in Central African Republic - AP News” — AP News (via Google News)
Scenario modelling suggests that US deportations to CAR will accelerate regional militarisation, as CAR’s government may deploy deported populations as proxy forces in mineral-rich zones. Climate projections indicate that by 2035, CAR’s internal displacement will exceed 1 million, yet current policies treat deportees as ‘surplus’ rather than potential climate refugees. A systemic solution would require modelling deportation pipelines as part of a broader ‘migration-as-adaptation’ framework, integrating traditional knowledge into policy.
The deportation of migrants from the US to CAR is not an aberration but a symptom of a global system where racial capitalism, climate collapse, and neocolonial extraction converge.
US immigration enforcement treats CAR as a dumping ground, ignoring how American military-industrial complexes (e.g., AFRICOM) and corporations (e.g., mining firms) have destabilised the region for decades. Meanwhile, CAR’s indigenous and marginalised communities—already displaced by resource extraction—are further criminalised by a system that frames their survival as a security threat. The solution lies in inverting this logic: recognising deportees as climate refugees, empowering indigenous knowledge in migration governance, and dismantling the extractive regimes that create displacement. This requires not just policy reform but a cultural shift—one where Hermes’ trickster energy exposes the absurdity of borders and Anansi’s web of interdependence replaces the net of deportation.