Paper Trails : Migrants, Documents, and Legal Insecurity /

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"PAPER TRAILS is an edited volume that offers a critical analysis of various types of identity documentation, such as U.S. state-issued driver's licenses, to examine the power dynamics between migrants and traditional immigrant-receiving countries. In the United States, Canada, and the Eur...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Heyman, Josiah McC. (Josiah McConnell), 1958- (Editor), Horton, Sarah Bronwen (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Series:Global insecurities.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration law > Great Britain.
Emigration and immigration law > United States.
Identification cards > Law and legislation > Great Britain.
Identification cards > Law and legislation > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Paper trails : migrants, bureaucratic inscription, and legal recognition / Sarah B. Horton
  • The "people out of place" : state limits on free mobility and the making of im(migrants) / Nandita Sharma
  • And about time too . . . : migration, documentation, and temporalities / Bridget Anderson
  • Documenting membership : the divergent politics of migrant driver's licenses in New Mexico and Arizona / Doris Marie Provine and Monica W. Varsanyi
  • Documented as unauthorized / Deborah A. Boehm
  • Opportunities and double binds : legal craft in an era of uncertainty/ Susan Bibler Coutin
  • Document overseers, enhanced enforcement, and racialized local contexts : experiences of Latino immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona / Cecilia Menjívar
  • Knowing your rights in Trump's America : paper trails of community empowerment / Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz
  • Strategies of documentation among Kichwa transnational migrants / Juan Thomas Ordóñez

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