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Overview

Susan Bibler Coutin is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on sociology, political science, and law. Their work covers various subfields including sociology and political science, law, political science and international relations, as well as general health professions and demography.

Their research topics include migration, refugees, and integration; law in society and culture; Southeast Asian sociopolitical studies; migration and labor dynamics; migration, health and trauma; interpreting and communication in healthcare; and diaspora, migration, and transnational identity.

Recent publications authored by Susan Bibler Coutin include:

  • The craft of translation: documentary practices within immigration advocacy in the United States, 2023, PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review
  • Shapeshifting Displacement: Notions of Membership and Deservingness Forged by Illegalized Residents, 2021, Humanity
  • Adminigration: City-Level Governance of Immigrant Community Members, 2023, Law & Social Inquiry
  • Shapeshifting Displacement: Notions of Membership and Deservingness Forged by Illegalized Residents, 2021, Humanity

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Coutin include:

  • Barbara Yngvesson
  • Jennifer M. Chacón
  • Stephen Lee
  • Walter J. Nicholls

The scholar has published several books, particularly with Cornell University Press eBooks and Stanford University Press eBooks. The titles include multiple editions of Documenting Impossible Realities published in 2023 and Legal Phantoms, published in 2024.

Publication venues where Coutin's work frequently appears include:

  • Cornell University Press eBooks
  • PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review
  • Humanity
  • Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • Stanford University Press eBooks

Best Publications

  • Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America

    Susan Bibler Coutin

  • Nations of Emigrants

    Susan Bibler Coutin

  • The culture of protest : religious activism and the U.S. sanctuary movement

    Susan Bibler Coutin

  • Legalizing moves : Salvadoran immigrants' struggle for U.S. residency

    Susan Bibler Coutin

  • Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States

    Susan Bibler Coutin

  • Contesting criminality Illegal immigration and the spatialization of legality

    Susan Bibler Coutin

  • Confined within: National territories as zones of confinement

    Susan Bibler Coutin

  • From refugees to immigrants: the legalization strategies of Salvadoran immigrants and activists.

    Susan Bibler Coutin

  • Deportation Studies: Origins, Themes and Directions

    Susan Bibler Coutin

  • Remitting subjects: migrants, money and states

    Ester Hernandez;Susan Bibler Coutin

  • Cultural logics of belonging and movement Transnationalism, naturalization, and U.S. immigration politics

    Susan Bibler Coutin

  • Falling Outside: Excavating the History of Central American Asylum Seekers

    Susan Bibler Coutin

  • “Your friend, the illegal:” Definition and paradox in newspaper accounts of U.S. immigration reform

    Susan Bibler Coutin;Phyllis Pease Chock

  • Being En Route

    Susan Bibler Coutin

  • Denationalization, Inclusion, and Exclusion: Negotiating the Boundaries of Belonging

    Susan B Coutin

  • In the Mirror: The Legitimation Work of Globalization

    Susan Bibler Coutin;Bill Maurer;Barbara Yngvesson

  • Exiled Home: Salvadoran Transnational Youth in the Aftermath of Violence

    Susan Bibler Coutin

  • Technologies of truth in the anthropology of conflict: AES/APLA Presidential Address, 2013

    Sally Engle Merry;Susan Bibler Coutin

  • The Oppressed, the Suspect, and the Citizen: Subjectivity in Competing Accounts of Political Violence

    Susan Bibler Coutin

  • The Rights of Noncitizens in the United States

    Susan Bibler Coutin

  • A Moment's NoticeTime Politics across Cultures

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  • Suspension of Deportation Hearings and Measures of "Americanness"

    Susan Bibler Coutin

  • smugglers or samaritans in Tucson, Arizona: producing and contesting legal truth

    Susan Bibler Coutin

  • Legacies and origins of the 1980s US–Central American sanctuary movement

    Hector Perla;Susan Bibler Coutin

Frequent Co-Authors

Sally Engle Merry
Sally Engle Merry New York University

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