1 option
Islands of sovereignty : Haitian migration and the borders of empire / Jeffrey S. Kahn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kahn, Jeffrey S., author.
- Series:
- Chicago series in law and society
- The Chicago series in law and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Refugees.
- Coastal surveillance.
- Emigration and immigration.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- United States.
- Government policy.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Haiti--Emigration and immigration.
- Haiti.
- Emigration and immigration law--United States.
- Emigration and immigration law.
- Coastal surveillance--United States.
- Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Refugees--Haiti.
- Border security--United States.
- Border security.
- Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 355 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- In Islands of Sovereignty, anthropologist and legal scholar Jeffrey S. Kahn offers a new interpretation of the transformation of US borders during the late twentieth century and its implications for our understanding of the nation-state as a legal and political form. Kahn takes us on a voyage into the immigration tribunals of South Florida, the Coast Guard vessels patrolling the northern Caribbean, and the camps of Guant namo Bay - once the world's largest US-operated migrant detention facility--to explore how litigation concerning the fate of Haitian asylum seekers gave birth to a novel paradigm of offshore oceanic migration policing. Combining ethnography - in Haiti, at Guant namo, and alongside US migration patrols in the Caribbean--with in-depth archival research, Kahn expounds a nuanced theory of liberal empire's dynamic tensions and its racialized geographies of securitization. An innovative historical anthropology of the modern legal imagination, Islands of Sovereignty forces us to reconsider the significance of the rise of the current US immigration border and its relation to broader shifts in the legal infrastructure of contemporary nation-states across the globe.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The political and the economic
- Border laboratories
- Contagion and the sovereign body
- Screening's architecture
- The jurisdictional imagination
- Interdiction adrift.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780226587387
- 022658738X
- 9780226587417
- 022658741X
- OCLC:
- 1043304134
- Publisher Number:
- 99980370086
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.