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.

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago Series in Law and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration law--United States.

Emigration and immigration law.

Coastal surveillance--United States.

Coastal surveillance.

Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Refugees.

Refugees--Haiti.

Border security--United States.

Border security.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

United States.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

Haiti--Emigration and immigration.

Haiti.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 pages).

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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 Guantánamo 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 Guantánamo, 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:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Political and the Economic

2. Border Laboratories

3. Contagion and the Sovereign Body

4. Screening's Architecture

5. The Jurisdictional Imagination

6. Interdiction Adrift

Afterword

Notes

Archival Sources

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226587554

022658755X

OCLC:

1078562658