Legalizing moves : Salvadoran immigrants' struggle for U.S. residency
Legalizing Moves analyses Salvadoran immigrants' struggle for legal permanent residency in the United States. An ethnography of a process that is legal and political, it sheds light on the criteria that have been used to define Americanness
Print Book, English, ©2000
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©2000
xiv, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780472110124, 9780472089284, 0472110128, 0472089285
41503033
Chronology of political and legal events affecting Salvadoran asylum seekers
Negotiating identities
Illegality and the spaces of nonexistence
Papeles, permisos, and permanence
Law is one thing, justice is another
In the wolf's mouth
From refugees to immigrants
Legitimizing realities