His current projects examine intergenerational conflict over marital choice and migration in the United States; the violent victimization of undocumented migrants in Long Island; and gender, development, and Islam in the Republic of Maldives. He is currently at work on a book with Amber Horning about adolescent sex workers and pimps entitled Street Teens and Moral Entrepreneurs: Ethnographies of Sex and Commerce to be published by Lynne Rienner Publishers in 2015.