[Linganth] Susan Coutin's new book on undocumented migrants and legal advocacy

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Many of you may be interested in Susan Coutin's new book, On the Record.
It comes out tomorrow, and you can read an interview about the book on the
CaMP anthropology blog today.

www.campanthropology.org

The book is available open access here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/on-the-record/paper


Best,
Ilana

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, *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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