He is the PI of an ERC project on “The Social Life of State Deportation Regimes,” in which the implementation of deportation is examined in Greece, Spain, France, Israel, and Ecuador. His recent articles include "State desertion and “out-of-procedure” asylum seekers in the Netherlands," Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology (2017), “The Deportation Continuum,” Citizenship Studies (2016, with Lieke Wissink); “The Jewish State of Anxiety,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2015).