<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div>Some of you may be interested in the
APLA virtual reading group this month and next month (Jessica
Greenberg). This month APLA is delighted to feature Susan
Coutin's book, On The Record: Papers, Immigration, and Advocacy. We are
meeting Friday November 7th from noon to 1 pm to discuss the book with
her by Zoom.</div><div><br></div><div>She
has asked us to read the introduction. Please read as much as you can,
but do feel free to join us even if you haven't managed to read
everything.</div><div><br>The reading can be found here:</div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oQN4vtPuDnRlFRdtDEmBkq8Zmrep2xh2/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oQN4vtPuDnRlFRdtDEmBkq8Zmrep2xh2/view?usp=sharing</a><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The book itself is open access -- those interested in having an electronic version of the whole book can find it here: </div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> </span><a href="https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.237" target="_blank" style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.237</a></div><div><br></div><div>The meeting will be 12-1 pm east coast time November 7th and can be reached by clicking on this Zoom link:<br><br><a href="https://iu.zoom.us/j/94049124398" target="_blank">https://iu.zoom.us/j/94049124398</a><br><br>Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,<br><br>Ilana</div><div><br></div><div>Press blurb:
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, <span class="gmail-a-text-italic">On the Record </span>explores
these complex dynamics by taking seriously both documents themselves
and the legal craft that has developed around their use.
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