David Moffette

David Moffette is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University and a EU-Borders Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Global Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from York University and will be joining the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa as an assistant professor in January. His doctoral dissertation, for which he received the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal, looks at the logics and practices that have informed Spanish immigration and border policies since the 1980s. His current research—titled Municipal Border Control? Overlapping Jurisdictions, Nationalist Practices and Municipal Borderwork in Montreal and Barcelona—studies how institutional actors whose work is not primarily concerned with immigration control use municipal regulations to govern immigration by intervening in the city, but on a space imagined as national.