In November 1978, a group of Haitians sailed their small wooden
vessel into the harbor of the US Naval Station at Guantánamo Bay.
After replenishing their stores of food and water, they departed
with the blessing of the base commander and continued toward the
Florida Coast in search of asylum. Far from unusual, this voyage
was one of many that unfolded across an open Caribbean seascape in
which Guantánamo served as a waypoint in a larger odyssey of
oceanic migration. By the early 1990s, these unimpeded sea routes
gave way to a virtually impenetrable wall of Coast Guard cutters
while Guantánamo itself transformed into the largest US-operated
migrant detention center in the world. Islands of Sovereignty is
the first book to examine the history of this new maritime border
and how it emerged from decades of litigation struggles over the
treatment of Haitian asylum seekers in the United States. Jeffrey
S. Kahn explores how a series of skirmishes in the South Florida
offices of the US immigration bureaucracy became something much
more—a fight for the soul of immigration policing in the United
States that would eventually remake the asylum adjudication
landscape on a global scale. Combining fieldwork with a wide array
of historical sources, Kahn seamlessly weaves together anthropology
and law in an ambitious account of liberal empire’s geographies
of securitization. A novel historical ethnography of the modern
legal imagination, Islands of Sovereignty offers new ways of
thinking through border control in the United States and elsewhere
and the political forms it continues to generate into the present.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Chicago Series in Law and Society |
| Release date: |
December 2018 |
| Authors: |
Jeffrey S Kahn
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
352 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-58741-7 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
Books >
Law >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-226-58741-X |
| Barcode: |
9780226587417 |
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