On the Record
eBook - PDF

On the Record

Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy

  1. 187 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

On the Record

Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy

About this book

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.

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Information

Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Securitization, Humanitarianism, and Plenary Power
  9. 2. Routine Exceptionality
  10. 3. Legal Craft
  11. 4. Otro mundo es posible (Another World Is Possible)
  12. Conclusion: Documenting Back
  13. Notes
  14. References
  15. Index