Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. ResidencyLegalizing Moves analyzes the battle Salvadoran immigrants have fought for two decades to win legal permanent residency in the United States. Drawing on interviews with Salvadoran asylum applicants, observations of deportation hearings, and fieldwork within the Salvadoran community in Los Angeles, Susan Bibler Coutin illustrates the profound effects of increasingly restrictive immigration laws on the lives of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Susan Bibler Coutin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, at the University of California, Irvine. |
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Inhoudsopgave
Negotiating Identities | 1 |
Illegality and the Spaces of Nonexistence | 27 |
Papeles Permisos and Permanence | 49 |
Law Is One Thing Justice Is Another | 79 |
In the Wolfs Mouth | 105 |
From Refugees to Immigrants | 135 |
Legitimizing Realities | 163 |
Notes | 179 |
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Overige edities - Alles weergeven
Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. Residency Susan Bibler Coutin Fragmentweergave - 2000 |
Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. Residency Susan Bibler Coutin Fragmentweergave - 2000 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. Residency |
| Auteur | Susan Bibler Coutin |
| foto's door | Susan Bibler Coutin |
| Editie | geïllustreerd, herdruk |
| Uitgever | University of Michigan Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0472089285, 9780472089284 |
| Lengte | 228 pagina's |
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