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The contributors to
Paper Trails examine migrants' relationship to the state through requirements to obtain identification documents in order to get legal status.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
The contributors to Paper Trails examine migrants' relationship to the state through requirements to obtain identification documents in order to get legal status.
