I'll be giving a  talk entitled "Our Hidden Borders: Guantánamo, Interdiction, and the Rise of Offshore Migration Policing," on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 4:30–6:00 pm, for the Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration at MIT. Location: 70 Memorial Drive, E51–095.

I'm absolutely thrilled to announce that Islands of Sovereignty is a co-winner of the 2019 Haitian Studies Association Avant Garde Book Prize. The prize is given to the best single-authored book in Haitian Studies in the social sciences, with broad application beyond the academy.

For those of you in the Boston area, I'll be doing a book launch at Harvard's Weatherhead Center on Oct. 28th, 12–1:30 pm, 1730 Cambridge St, CGIS South (Porté Seminar Room, S250). Laleh Khalili (Queen Mary, University of London) and Sally Merry (NYU) will be offering commentary. Lunch will be provided. Further details in the poster below.

Anthropologist Greg Beckett's terrific review of Islands of Sovereignty is out in Political and Legal Anthropology Review (link here).

Leti Volpp (Berkeley Law) has written a beautiful, thoughtful, and generous review of Islands of Sovereignty for Lawfareblog (link here). The review stands on its own as an illuminating account of some of the Trump administration's efforts to remake asylum processing on the southern border. Worth a read!