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

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

Coutin, Susan Bibler

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AnthropologyGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0801445744
ISBN13: 9780801445743
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Sep 10 2007
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 Salvador. These interviews and accounts illustrate the dilemmas that migration creates for nation-states as well as the difficulties for individuals who must live simultaneously within and outside the legal systems of two countries.

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