{"product_id":"on-the-record-papers-immigration-and-legal-advocacy-9780520405356","title":"On the Record: Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy","description":"\u003cb\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ​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, \u003ci\u003eOn the Record \u003c\/i\u003eexplores these complex dynamics by taking seriously both documents themselves and the legal craft that has developed around their use.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Bibler Coutin\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of \u003ci\u003eLegalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. Residency\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eDocumenting Impossible Realities: Ethnography, Memory, and the As If.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51589673124114,"sku":"9780520405356","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ddd5289c-10d5-4e20-a57d-93ee3944626e.jpg?v=1756800736","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-the-record-papers-immigration-and-legal-advocacy-9780520405356","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}