| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 355 pages) |
| Series |
Chicago Series in Law and Society |
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Chicago series in law and society.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- The political and the economic -- Border laboratories -- Contagion and the sovereign body -- Screening's architecture -- The jurisdictional imagination -- Interdiction adrift |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 08, 2019) |
| Subject |
Emigration and immigration law -- United States.
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Coastal surveillance -- United States
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Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
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Refugees -- Haiti
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Border security -- United States.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Border security
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Coastal surveillance
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Emigration and immigration
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Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
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Emigration and immigration law
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Refugees
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Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Politics & government.
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Politics and Government.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
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United States -- Emigration and immigration.
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Haiti -- Emigration and immigration.
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Haiti
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
022658755X |
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9780226587554 |
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