[Linganth] APLA reading group - Susan Coutin - Document studies

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
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.

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.

The reading can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oQN4vtPuDnRlFRdtDEmBkq8Zmrep2xh2/view?usp=sharing


The book itself is open access -- those interested in having an electronic
version of the whole book can find it here:
  https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.237

The meeting will be 12-1 pm  east coast time November 7th and can
be reached by clicking on this Zoom link:

https://iu.zoom.us/j/94049124398

Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,

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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