Full Description
Across the globe, states have long aimed to control the movement of people, identify their citizens, and restrict noncitizens' rights through official identification documents. Although states are now less likely to grant permanent legal status, they are increasingly issuing new temporary and provisional legal statuses to migrants. Meanwhile, the need for migrants to apply for frequent renewals subjects them to more intensive state surveillance. The contributors to Paper Trails examine how these new developments change migrants' relationship to state, local, and foreign bureaucracies. The contributors analyze, among other toics, immigration policies in the United Kingdom, the issuing of driver's licenses in Arizona and New Mexico, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and community know-your-rights campaigns. By demonstrating how migrants are inscribed into official bureaucratic systems through the issuance of identification documents, the contributors open up new ways to understand how states exert their power and how migrants must navigate new systems of governance.
Contributors. Bridget Anderson, Deborah A. Boehm, Susan Bibler Coutin, Ruth Gomberg-MuÑoz, Sarah B. Horton, Josiah Heyman, Cecilia MenjÍvar, Juan Thomas OrdÓÑez, Doris Marie Provine, Nandita Sharma, Monica Varsanyi
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
