Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Limits of Law: A Cultural Study of U.S. Immigration Prisons and Courts

该项目将对美国移民和归化局的一个移民拘留设施及其包含的移民法庭进行人种学描述。通过面谈和对个别案件的长期观察，该项目将记录拘留中心人员（包括被拘留者、行政部门的移民法官、律师和警卫）持有的法律理论。该项目将考察这些法律理论在多大程度上脱离了美国公法的主流。

The project will provide an ethnographic account of one of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service's immigration detention facilities and the immigration court it contains. Through interviews and extended observation of individual cases, the project will document the legal theories held by those at the facility, including the detainees, executive branch immigration judges, lawyers and guards. The project will examine the extent to which these legal theories are isolated from the main currents of U.S. public law.