Moffette, David
David Moffette studies various questions related to the intersections between criminal law and immigration law, the securitization of immigration, borders and bordering practices, state multiculturalism, and race and racism. His forthcoming book Governing Irregular Migration: Bordering Culture, Labour and Security in Spain (UBC Press, 2018) looks at the logics and practices that have informed immigration and border policies in this southern European country since the 1980s.
His main current research, titled "Municipal Immigration Control? Overlapping Jurisdictions, National Projects and Borderwork in Montreal and Barcelona," studies how institutional actors whose work is not primary concerned with immigration regulation can use municipal bylaws to govern immigration. By doing so, they intervene in the city but on a space imagined as national. The project thus looks at laws and regulations not primarily as systems of rules, but as a flexible set of tactics and techniques deployed in the everyday governance of urban life. This research focuses on local politics in order to better understand the multi-scalar dimension of immigration governance, and promote policy changes that can help better protect the rights of immigrants with precarious status.
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Current position(s), Institution
Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa
Fields of expertise
Critical border and security studies
Canadian and European immigration policies
Intersections between immigration law and criminal law
Race, racialization and racism
Spatiality, temporality, scales, jurisdictions
Canadian and European immigration policies
Intersections between immigration law and criminal law
Race, racialization and racism
Spatiality, temporality, scales, jurisdictions
Research Groups
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Institution
Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa
E-mail
Other important publications
Selected Publications
Books
Forthcoming 2018 Governing Irregular Migration: Bordering Culture, Labour and Security in Spain. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Journal Articles
2016 Moffette, D. and S. Vadasaria. “Uninhibited Violence: Race and the Securitization of Immigration.” Critical Studies on Security 4(3): 291-305.
2015/16 “Propositions pour une sociologie pragmatique des frontières : multiples acteurs, pratiques spatio-temporelles et jeux de juridictions.” Cahiers de recherche sociologique 59/60: 61-78.
2014 “Governing Immigration through Probation: The Displacement of Borderwork and the Assessment of Desirability in Spain.” Security Dialogue 45(3): 262-78.
2013 “Migrants, Muslim Ceutíes and Porteadores: Race, Security and Tolerance at the Spanish- Moroccan Border.” Canadian Journal of Sociology 38(4): 601-21.
2012 “Études critiques de la sécurité : quelques contributions théoriques pour une anthropologie de la sécurité.” Aspects sociologiques 19(1): 40-68.
2010 “Convivencia and Securitization: Ordering and Managing Migration in Ceuta (Spain).” Journal of Legal Anthropology 2(1): 189-211.
2010 “Mondialisation et violence sexiste. Le cas des travailleuses domestiques migrantes au Canada.” Potentia: Journal of International and Public Affairs 2: 69-78.
Book Chapters
Forthcoming “Regulating Immigrants and Managing Populations: The Use of Probationary Status and 2017 Conditionality in Migration Governance.” In Re-Making Normal: Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times, edited by D. Brock. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
2013 Mekki-Berrada, A., D. Moffette, M. Kilani, A. Etoussi, D. Helly, J.J. Schensul and G. El Khayat. “Droits précaires, déchirures émotionnelles et résilience des migrantes subsahariennes en transit.” In Droits et cultures en mouvements, edited by F. Saillant and K. Truchon, 229-49. Quebec: Presses de l’Université Laval.
2012 “Penser la violence du droit : l’héritage de Robert Cover.” In Violence et droit, edited by R. Brett. G. Delmas, A. Michel, and N. Wagener, 35-46. Paris: L’Harmattan.
Reports and Other Publications
2017 No One is Illegal-Vancouver (D. Moffette and K. Cocq, Spanish translators). “Derechos de los refugiados en la frontera. Una guía sobre los derechos de cualquier persona sin ciudadanía americana cruzando desde los Estados Unidos para pedir asilo en Canadá.” Know your rights guide for asylum seekers crossing from the U.S. Online: https://noiivan.resist.ca/?p=6487
2015 Moffette, D. and K. Gardner. “Often Asking, Always Telling: The Toronto Police Service and the Sanctuary City Policy.” Report presented by No One Is Illegal – Toronto and the Immigration Legal Committee of the Law Union of Ontario to the City of Toronto’s Community Recreation and Development Committee, Nov. 25. Online: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1lv8ESIUEpvaXBETUxFcGtiNFU/view
2015 Moffette, D. and C. Orgaz Alonso. “Using Criminal Charges to Punish Administrative Immigration Offences in Spain.” Border Criminologies. Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. Online: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2015/01/using-criminal
2014 Collective (D. Moffette, co-signatory and French translator). “L’exclusion des travailleuses et travailleurs migrant(e)s fait partie de l’héritage du Komagata Maru.” Online: http://komagatamarulegacy.tumblr.com/
2012 Law Union of Ontario and No One is Illegal-Toronto (D. Moffette, French translator).“Migrant(e)s, connaissez vos droits ! Un guide sur les arrestations, détentions et déportations pour motifs d’immigration.” Know your rights guide for migrants. Online: http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/kyrfrench
Books
Forthcoming 2018 Governing Irregular Migration: Bordering Culture, Labour and Security in Spain. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Journal Articles
2016 Moffette, D. and S. Vadasaria. “Uninhibited Violence: Race and the Securitization of Immigration.” Critical Studies on Security 4(3): 291-305.
2015/16 “Propositions pour une sociologie pragmatique des frontières : multiples acteurs, pratiques spatio-temporelles et jeux de juridictions.” Cahiers de recherche sociologique 59/60: 61-78.
2014 “Governing Immigration through Probation: The Displacement of Borderwork and the Assessment of Desirability in Spain.” Security Dialogue 45(3): 262-78.
2013 “Migrants, Muslim Ceutíes and Porteadores: Race, Security and Tolerance at the Spanish- Moroccan Border.” Canadian Journal of Sociology 38(4): 601-21.
2012 “Études critiques de la sécurité : quelques contributions théoriques pour une anthropologie de la sécurité.” Aspects sociologiques 19(1): 40-68.
2010 “Convivencia and Securitization: Ordering and Managing Migration in Ceuta (Spain).” Journal of Legal Anthropology 2(1): 189-211.
2010 “Mondialisation et violence sexiste. Le cas des travailleuses domestiques migrantes au Canada.” Potentia: Journal of International and Public Affairs 2: 69-78.
Book Chapters
Forthcoming “Regulating Immigrants and Managing Populations: The Use of Probationary Status and 2017 Conditionality in Migration Governance.” In Re-Making Normal: Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times, edited by D. Brock. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
2013 Mekki-Berrada, A., D. Moffette, M. Kilani, A. Etoussi, D. Helly, J.J. Schensul and G. El Khayat. “Droits précaires, déchirures émotionnelles et résilience des migrantes subsahariennes en transit.” In Droits et cultures en mouvements, edited by F. Saillant and K. Truchon, 229-49. Quebec: Presses de l’Université Laval.
2012 “Penser la violence du droit : l’héritage de Robert Cover.” In Violence et droit, edited by R. Brett. G. Delmas, A. Michel, and N. Wagener, 35-46. Paris: L’Harmattan.
Reports and Other Publications
2017 No One is Illegal-Vancouver (D. Moffette and K. Cocq, Spanish translators). “Derechos de los refugiados en la frontera. Una guía sobre los derechos de cualquier persona sin ciudadanía americana cruzando desde los Estados Unidos para pedir asilo en Canadá.” Know your rights guide for asylum seekers crossing from the U.S. Online: https://noiivan.resist.ca/?p=6487
2015 Moffette, D. and K. Gardner. “Often Asking, Always Telling: The Toronto Police Service and the Sanctuary City Policy.” Report presented by No One Is Illegal – Toronto and the Immigration Legal Committee of the Law Union of Ontario to the City of Toronto’s Community Recreation and Development Committee, Nov. 25. Online: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1lv8ESIUEpvaXBETUxFcGtiNFU/view
2015 Moffette, D. and C. Orgaz Alonso. “Using Criminal Charges to Punish Administrative Immigration Offences in Spain.” Border Criminologies. Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. Online: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2015/01/using-criminal
2014 Collective (D. Moffette, co-signatory and French translator). “L’exclusion des travailleuses et travailleurs migrant(e)s fait partie de l’héritage du Komagata Maru.” Online: http://komagatamarulegacy.tumblr.com/
2012 Law Union of Ontario and No One is Illegal-Toronto (D. Moffette, French translator).“Migrant(e)s, connaissez vos droits ! Un guide sur les arrestations, détentions et déportations pour motifs d’immigration.” Know your rights guide for migrants. Online: http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/kyrfrench
Fluent spoken languages
English, French, Spanish
Fluent written languages
English, French, Spanish
