On the Record : Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coutin, Susan Bibler.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Noncitizens--United States.

Noncitizens.

Illegal immigration--Government policy--United States.

Illegal immigration.

Emigration and immigration law--United States.

Emigration and immigration law.

Immigration lawyers--United States.

Immigration lawyers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2025.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. ​Immigrant residents seeking legal status in the United States face a catch-22: the documents that they must present to immigration officials--bank records, paycheck stubs, and contracts in their own names--are often challenging for undocumented people to obtain. In this book, Susan Bibler Coutin analyzes how undocumented immigrants and the attorneys and paralegals who represent them attempt to surmount this and other documentary challenges. Based on four years of fieldwork and volunteer work in the legal services department of an immigrant-serving nonprofit and in-depth interviews with those seeking status, On the Record explores these complex dynamics by taking seriously both documents themselves and the legal craft that has developed around their use.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Securitization, Humanitarianism, and Plenary Power

2. Routine Exceptionality

3. Legal Craft

4. Otro mundo es posible (Another World Is Possible)

Conclusion: Documenting Back

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-520-40536-6

OCLC:

1519986521