Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. ResidencyUniversity of Michigan Press, 2003 - 228 من الصفحات Legalizing 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. |
المحتوى
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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| العنوان | Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. Residency |
| المؤلف | Susan Bibler Coutin |
| تصوير | Susan Bibler Coutin |
| الإصدار | مزود بصور توضيحية |
| الناشر | University of Michigan Press, 2003 |
| رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب) | 0472089285, 9780472089284 |
| عدد الصفحات | 228 من الصفحات |
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