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On the Record

Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy

Susan Bibler Coutin

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University of California Press
05 August 2025
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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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Imprint:   University of California Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   408g
ISBN:   9780520422827
ISBN 10:   0520422821
Pages:   186
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Susan Bibler Coutin is Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants’ Struggle for U.S. Residency and coauthor of Documenting Impossible Realities: Ethnography, Memory, and the As If.

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