Very excited to participate in the Post-Imperial Oceanics conference organized by Sharad Chari (Geography, Berkeley), Charne Lavery (WiSER, University of the Witwatersrand), and Isabel Hofmeyr (WiSER, University of the Witwatersrand). Such a wonderful lineup of speakers!
Link for registration available here.

Very happy to learn that Islands of Sovereignty is the co-winner of the Book Award of the American Political Science Association Migration and Citizenship Section. Delighted to share this honor with Noora Lori, who also won for her amazing new book, Offshore Citizens: Permanent Temporary Status in the Gulf.

I'm delighted to share that Islands of Sovereignty was recognized with the Law and Society Association 2020 Herbert Jacob Book Prize and the Isis Duarte Prize of the Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies Association. Such an honor to be recognized by these organizations!

New reviews are out for Islands of Sovereignty in International Migration Review (link here), American Ethnologist (link here), and Theory & Event (link here). Many thanks to the authors for taking the time to so thoughtfully engage with the book.

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!

I'll be discussing Islands of Sovereignty in the Immigration Law and the American State Seminar/Human Rights Workshop at Yale Law School. Come on by if you're in the area.
Where: Calabresi Faculty Lounge, Yale Law School
When: Sept. 4, 2019, 12:10–2:00 pm