{"product_id":"islands-of-sovereignty-haitian-migration-and-the-borders-of-empire-9780226587417","title":"Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jeffrey S. Kahn\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Emigration \u0026amp; Immigration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eIslands of Sovereignty\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eIslands of Sovereignty\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889422614679,"sku":"9780226587417","price":4018.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226587417.webp?v=1781176386","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/islands-of-sovereignty-haitian-migration-and-the-borders-of-empire-9780226587417","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}