Paper Trails (eBook, PDF)

Migrants, Documents, and Legal Insecurity
Redaktion: Sarah B. Horton, Horton

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Across the globe, states have long aimed to control the movement of people, identify their citizens, and restrict noncitizens' rights through official identification documents. Although states are now less likely to grant permanent legal status, they are increasingly issuing new temporary and provisional legal statuses to migrants. Meanwhile, the need for migrants to apply for frequent renewals subjects them to more intensive state surveillance. The contributors to Paper Trails examine how these new developments change migrants' relationship to state, local, and foreign bureaucracies. The contributors analyze, among other toics, immigration policies in the United Kingdom, the issuing of driver's licenses in Arizona and New Mexico, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and community know-your-rights campaigns. By demonstrating how migrants are inscribed into official bureaucratic systems through the issuance of identification documents, the contributors open up new ways to understand how states exert their power and how migrants must navigate new systems of governance.Contributors. Bridget Anderson, Deborah A. Boehm, Susan Bibler Coutin, Ruth Gomberg-Munoz, Sarah B. Horton, Josiah Heyman, Cecilia Menjivar, Juan Thomas Ordonez, Doris Marie Provine, Nandita Sharma, Monica Varsanyi

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478012092
• Artikelnr.: 66282445

Autorenporträt

Sarah B. Horton is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Denver, and author of They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields: Illness, Injury, and Illegality among U.S. Farmworkers. Josiah Heyman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas--El Paso, and coeditor of The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region: Cultural Dynamics and Historical Interactions.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Paper Trails: Migrants, Bureaucratic Inscription, and Legal
Recognition / Sarah B. Horton  1
Part I. Foundations: Controlling Space and Time  27
1. The "People Out of Place": State Limits on Free Mobility and the Making
of Im(migrants) / Nandita Sharma  31
2. And About Time Too . . .: Migration, Documentation, and Temporalities /
Bridget Anderson  53
3. Documenting Membership: The Divergent Politics of Migrant Driver's
Licenses in New Mexico and Arizona / Doris Marie Provine and Monica W.
Varsanyi  74
Part II. Documents as Security, Documents as Visibility  103
4. Documented as Unauthorized / Deborah A. Boehm  109
5. Opportunities and Double Binds: Legal Craft in an Era of Uncertainty /
Susan Bibler Coutin  130
6. Document Overseers, Enhanced Enforcement, and Racialized Local Contexts:
Experiences of Latino Immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona / Cecilia Menjívar 
153
Part III. Resistance and Refusals  179
7. Knowing Your Rights in Trump's America: Paper Trails of Community
Empowerment / Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz  185
8. Strategies of Documentation among Kichwa Transnational Migrants / Juan
Thomas Ordóñez  208
Conclusion: Documents as Power / Josiah Heyman  229
Contributors  249
Index  253