David Moffette is a sociologist who studies various questions related to the intersections between criminal law and immigration law, the securitization of immigration, borders and bordering practices, policing, state multiculturalism, and race and racism. His recent 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.
He is the principal investigator for a new community-engaged research titled “Experiences of Encounters with the Police in Ottawa.” The research team, composed of Chris Bruckert, Sadia Jama, David Moffette and Lindsay Snow, is documenting the experiences of encounters with the police in various disproportionately policed communities in Ottawa. The research is funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant.
His other 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, and thus intervene in the city but on a space imagined as national.
Research Interests: Critical border and security studies, Canadian and European immigration policies, Intersections between immigration law and criminal law, Race, racialization and racism, and Spatiality, temporality, scales, jurisdictions
| Institution: | University of Ottawa |
| Fields of Expertise: | Borders Canadian Politics Crime, Policing, and Law Enforcement Defence and Security Ethnicity, Racism, and Xenophobia EU Policies Law and Legal Issues Migration |
| Research groups: | Migration/Citizenship/Borders |
| Email: | david.moffette@uottawa.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English, French, Spanish |
| Publications: | Côté-Lussier, Carolyn, David Moffette & Justin Piché (eds.), Contemporary Criminological Issues: Moving Beyond Insecurity and Exclusion, University of Ottawa Press (May 2020) Côté-Lussier, Carolyn, David Moffette & Justin Piché (dir.), Enjeux criminologiques contemporains: Au-delà de l'insécurité et de l'exclusion, Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa (May 2020) Moffette, David (Forthcoming), “Governing Immigration by Other Means: Criminalization, Crimmigration, or Legal Pluralism?”, Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration, Edward Elgar (November 2020) Moffette, David & Anna Pratt, “Beyond Criminal Law and Methodological Nationalism: Borderlands, Jurisdictional Games, and Legal Intersections.”, Contemporary Criminological Issues: Moving Beyond Insecurity and Exclusion, University of Ottawa Press (May 2020) Côté-Lussier, Carolyn, David Moffette & Justin Piché, "Introduction: Remettre en question la criminologie, l’insécurité et l’exclusion", Enjeux criminologiques contemporains: Au-delà de l'insécurité et de l'exclusion, Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa (May 2020) Moffette, David (Forthcoming), "Immigration Status and Policing in Canada: Current Problems, Activist Strategies and Abolitionist Visions", Citizenship Studies (2021) Moffette, David, "The Jurisdictional Games of Immigration Policing: Barcelona's Fight Against Unauthorized Street Vending", Theoretical Criminology, Volume 24, Issue 2, 258-275 (First published online 2018, print, 2020) Moffette, David, "Immigration et criminalisation au Canada: État des lieux", Criminologie, Volume 52, Issue 2, 349-370 (December 2019) Benslimane, Souheil & David Moffette, "The Double Punishment of Criminal Inadmissibility for Immigrants in Canada", Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, Volume 28, Issue 1, 44-65 (August 2019) Moffette, David & William Walters, "Flickering Presence: Framings of Race in the Governmentality of Borders and Migration Scholarship", Studies in Social Justice, Volume 12, Issue 1, 92-110 (2018) |
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