current projects
Research on Immigration Law Enforcement
Since 2007 I have been conducting research on the unlawful detention and deportation of U.S. citizens and other U.S. residents locked up in jails and prisons without legal authority. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has no jurisdiction over U.S. citizens and no one can hold someone "for ICE" without a legal detainer. In these cases, occuring by the thousands, ICE agents are guilty of false imprisonment and kidnapping.States without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals, book, 2011 paper back, click here to order
New Directions in Critical Theory series, ed. Amy Allen, Columbia University Press, 2009.
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"As citizens, we hold certain truths to be self-evident: that the rights to own land, marry, inherit property, and especially to assume birthright citizenship should be guaranteed by the state. The laws promoting these rights appear not only to preserve our liberty but to guarantee society remains just. Yet considering how much violence and inequality results from these legal mandates, Jacqueline Stevens asks whether we might be making the wrong assumptions. Would a world without such laws be more just?"Human Being Project
Book manuscript in progress. Documents the origin of the U.S. Human Genome Project in the Manhattan Project and the continued resonance of racism and eugenics in this line of research.