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Nations of Emigrants Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in el Salvador and the United States

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ISBN-10: 0801473969

ISBN-13: 9780801473968

Edition: 2011

Authors: Susan Bibler Coutin

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The violence and economic devastation of the 1980-1992 civil war in El Salvador drove as many as one million Salvadorans to enter the United States, frequently without authorization. In Nations of Emigrants, the legal anthropologist Susan Bibler Coutin analyzes the case of emigration from El Salvador to the United States to consider how current forms of migration challenge conventional understandings of borders, citizenship, and migration itself. Interviews with policymakers and activists in El Salvador and the United States are juxtaposed with Salvadoran emigrants' accounts of their journeys to the United States, their lives in this country, and, in some cases, their removal to El…    
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Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 9/10/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Susan Bibler Coutin is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, School of Social Ecology, at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. Residency and The Culture of Protest: Religious Activism and the U.S. Sanctuary Movement .

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Prologue. "Ni de aqui, ni de alia"
Introduction
Los Retornados (Returnees)
La Ley NACARA (Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act)
Atencion a la Comunidad en el Exterior (Attention to Salvadorans Living Abroad)
En el Camino (En Route)
Las Remesas (Remittances)
Productos de la Guerra (Products of War)
Si, se puede! (Yes, it can be done!)
Conclusion
Epilogue. "Frutos de la Guerra"
References
Notes
Index