The main focus of my recent research is the search for safe haven and erosion of access to political asylum and related struggles over detention. Broadly, I am interested in the relationships between border enforcement and human migration; legal geographies and territoriality. Recent projects include the Island Detention Project, a CAREER grant funded by the National Science Foundation to study the role of islands and border enforcement off the shores of Australia, Europe, and North America. I am also researching shifting landscapes of asylum and meanings of safe haven for US war resisters who migrated to Canada during US-led wars in Vietnam and Iraq. In 2019, I began a new, collaborative, cross-border project to study the recent spike in asylum-seeking across the land border that divides Canada and the United States.
