David Monda is completing a PhD inpolitical science at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center.  His doctoral training is situated at the intersection of comparative politics and international relations with an emphasis on foreign policy and international migration. He was previously a research fellow at the Vera Institute’s Ending Detention Initiative, in Brooklyn, New York, studying the perverse incentives of state and local governments in the mass detention of undocumented immigrants in the United States. His research interests center on foreign policies of the Global South and securitization of narratives around migration. This research has included fieldwork in Belize, South Africa, Brazil, Kenya, and Argentina.