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In November 1978, a group of Haitians sailed their small wooden vessel into the harbor of america 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 on the lookout for asylum. Far from peculiar, this voyage was one of the 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 even as Guantánamo itself transformed into the largest US-operated detention center on the planet.
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 remedy of Haitian asylum seekers in the US. Jeffrey S. Kahn explores how a series of skirmishes in the South Florida offices of america immigration bureaucracy became something a lot more—a fight for the soul of immigration policing in the US that would eventually remake the 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 keep an eye on in the US and elsewhere and the political forms it continues to generate into the present.
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 remedy of Haitian asylum seekers in the US. Jeffrey S. Kahn explores how a series of skirmishes in the South Florida offices of america immigration bureaucracy became something a lot more—a fight for the soul of immigration policing in the US that would eventually remake the 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 keep an eye on in the US and elsewhere and the political forms it continues to generate into the present.
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