He holds a PhD in Human Geography from UNC-Chapel Hill, and he has published in journals such as Antipode, Political Geography, and European and Urban Regional Studies. He has also contributed to edited volumes including: Estados de Contención, Estados de Detención (Anthropos, 2017), The Critical Handbook on Migration Geographies (Edgar Ellen, forthcoming), and Anthropology of Scale: Struggles and Modalities of Modern Power (Cornell Press, forthcoming).