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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Exiled Home constitutes a timely and sophisticated scholarly piece that entails a thorough methodological discussion and makes for fascinating reading. By placing deportation within an institutional and policy context and considering the experiences of undocumented immigrants raised in or deported from the host country, the book complements an existing literature that is largely concerned with the reasons for migration, the situation of adult immigrants, and the impact of remittances. The work makes an impassioned plea to legalize youths who are US citizens in all but immigration status and should prove of interest in both academic and policy circles." -- Sonja Wolf * International Migration Review *"At a time when more people than ever are being displaced from their homelands, Coutin’s vivid, youth-centered analysis offers a potent and instructive understanding both of those who migrate and of those who are exiled home." -- Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz * American Anthropologist *"An illuminating example of how to effectively and creatively mesh theory with qualitative data. . . . A carefully crafted, humane portrayal of the broad-ranging and common experiences of Salvadoran migrant children living in the United States and those violently reinserted in El Salvador." -- Shirley A. Heying * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Exiled Home is a testament to many things—the importance of fieldwork, the significance of critical thought, the power of political participation—but the book also evidences the gift of longstanding ethnographic engagements." -- Kevin Lewis O'Neill * Anthropological Quarterly *"For anyone wishing to understand what is at stake with the cancelation of TPS and DACA, the proposed changes to make asylum even harder to get, or the waves of caravans coming out of Central America, [Exiled Home] is essential. It will be useful and timely for courses from any discipline on immigration as well as political and legal anthropology." -- Amelia Frank-Vitale * Border Criminologies *"Focusing on Salvadoran migration, the book not only shows that Central American migration to the US is not new, but also that Salvadorans’ migratory experience is characterized by different forms of violence and uncertainty that are not bounded to national territories or categories. Exiled Home contributes to understanding how Salvadoran youth migrants expand what it means to be Salvadoran and American." -- Lurio Gutiérrez Rivera * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“Exiled Home is an invaluable text, in which Susan Bibler Coutin builds upon her decades of critical ethnographic engagement with the Salvadoran diaspora to produce a theoretically rich and textured analysis of the children and youth who migrated with their families to the United States during the Salvadoran civil war (1980-92).” -- Irina Carlota Silber * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Violence and Silence 21 2. Living in the Gap 55 3. Dreams 95 4. Exiled Home through Deportation 129 5. Biographies and Nations 165 Conclusion. Re/membering Exiled Homes 205 Appendix 227 Notes 231 References 241 Index 265

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Exiled Home constitutes a timely and sophisticated scholarly piece that entails a thorough methodological discussion and makes for fascinating reading. By placing deportation within an institutional and policy context and considering the experiences of undocumented immigrants raised in or deported from the host country, the book complements an existing literature that is largely concerned with the reasons for migration, the situation of adult immigrants, and the impact of remittances. The work makes an impassioned plea to legalize youths who are US citizens in all but immigration status and should prove of interest in both academic and policy circles." -- Sonja Wolf * International Migration Review *"At a time when more people than ever are being displaced from their homelands, Coutin’s vivid, youth-centered analysis offers a potent and instructive understanding both of those who migrate and of those who are exiled home." -- Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz * American Anthropologist *"An illuminating example of how to effectively and creatively mesh theory with qualitative data. . . . A carefully crafted, humane portrayal of the broad-ranging and common experiences of Salvadoran migrant children living in the United States and those violently reinserted in El Salvador." -- Shirley A. Heying * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Exiled Home is a testament to many things—the importance of fieldwork, the significance of critical thought, the power of political participation—but the book also evidences the gift of longstanding ethnographic engagements." -- Kevin Lewis O'Neill * Anthropological Quarterly *"For anyone wishing to understand what is at stake with the cancelation of TPS and DACA, the proposed changes to make asylum even harder to get, or the waves of caravans coming out of Central America, [Exiled Home] is essential. It will be useful and timely for courses from any discipline on immigration as well as political and legal anthropology." -- Amelia Frank-Vitale * Border Criminologies *"Focusing on Salvadoran migration, the book not only shows that Central American migration to the US is not new, but also that Salvadorans’ migratory experience is characterized by different forms of violence and uncertainty that are not bounded to national territories or categories. Exiled Home contributes to understanding how Salvadoran youth migrants expand what it means to be Salvadoran and American." -- Lurio Gutiérrez Rivera * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“Exiled Home is an invaluable text, in which Susan Bibler Coutin builds upon her decades of critical ethnographic engagement with the Salvadoran diaspora to produce a theoretically rich and textured analysis of the children and youth who migrated with their families to the United States during the Salvadoran civil war (1980-92).” -- Irina Carlota Silber * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Violence and Silence 21 2. Living in the Gap 55 3. Dreams 95 4. Exiled Home through Deportation 129 5. Biographies and Nations 165 Conclusion. Re/membering Exiled Homes 205 Appendix 227 Notes 231 References 241 Index 265

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Book SynopsisThe 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was supposed to be a stepping stone, a policy innovation announced by the White House designed to put pressure on Congress for a broader, lasting set of legislative changes. Those changes never materialized, and the people who hoped to benefit from them have been forced to navigate a tense and contradictory policy landscape ever since, haunted by these unfulfilled promises. Legal Phantoms tells their story. After Congress failed to pass a comprehensive immigration bill in 2013, President Obama pivoted in 2014 to supplementing DACA with a deferred action program (known as DAPA) for the parents of citizens and lawful permanent residents and a DACA expansion (DACA+) in 2014. But challenges from Republican-led states prevented even these programs from going into effect. Interviews with would-be applicants, immigrant-rights advocates, and government officials reveal how such failed immigration-reform efforts continue to affect not only those who had hoped to benefit, but their families, communities, and the country in which they have made an uneasy home. Out of the ashes of these lost dreams, though, people find their own paths forward through uncharted legal territory with creativity and resistance.Trade Review"Legal Phantoms is the rare book that captures both the structural and human costs imposed by America's patchwork approach to immigration. It offers richly faceted analysis of how DACA has operated, its relationship to racist crimmigration regimes, and the tolls of temporariness on recipients. This is urgent reading for anyone who is concerned with immigrant precarity."—Elizabeth Cohen, Boston University"Impressive in focus and scope and meticulously researched, Legal Phantoms renders accessible the mesmerizing complexity of the immigration system that spews temporality into immigrants' lives while humanizing those who are entangled in its web. This superb team of scholars has crafted a lasting, indispensable resource for scholars, policy makers, and anyone who cares about immigrants today."—Cecilia Menjívar, University of California-Los Angeles

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Book SynopsisDocumenting Impossible Realities explores the limitations of conventional accounts through which belonging is documented, focusing on the experiences of adoptees, deportees, migrants, and other exilic populations. Susan Bibler Coutin and Barbara Yngvesson speak to the current historical moment in which the dichotomy between an above ground inhabited by dominant groups and an underground to which unauthorized immigrants, political exiles, and transnational adoptees are relegated cannot be sustained. This dichotomy was made possible by the illusion that some people do not belong, that some forms of kin are not real, or that certain ways of knowing do not count. To examine accounts that challenge such illusions, Coutin and Yngvesson focus on the spaces between groups, where difference is constituted and where the potential for new forms of relationship may be realized. By juxtaposing and moving between entangled realities and modes of expression, DocumentTable of ContentsPrologue: "What Lies Back of the Work" 1. Counterfeiting Reality: Legal Fictions and the Construction of Everyday Belongings 2. Fieldsight: Multivalent Ways of Seeing in Ethnography and Law 3. Schrödinger's Cat: The "Missing Middle," Discredited Histories, and Measurement Problems 4. The Search for a "Back": Archivists of Memory 5. Beyond "Spooky Action at a Distance": An Ethnography of the Future

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Book SynopsisDocumenting Impossible Realities explores the limitations of conventional accounts through which belonging is documented, focusing on the experiences of adoptees, deportees, migrants, and other exilic populations. Susan Bibler Coutin and Barbara Yngvesson speak to the current historical moment in which the dichotomy between an above ground inhabited by dominant groups and an underground to which unauthorized immigrants, political exiles, and transnational adoptees are relegated cannot be sustained. This dichotomy was made possible by the illusion that some people do not belong, that some forms of kin are not real, or that certain ways of knowing do not count. To examine accounts that challenge such illusions, Coutin and Yngvesson focus on the spaces between groups, where difference is constituted and where the potential for new forms of relationship may be realized. By juxtaposing and moving between entangled realities and modes of expression, DocumentTable of ContentsPrologue: "What Lies Back of the Work" 1. Counterfeiting Reality: Legal Fictions and the Construction of Everyday Belongings 2. Fieldsight: Multivalent Ways of Seeing in Ethnography and Law 3. Schrödinger's Cat: The "Missing Middle," Discredited Histories, and Measurement Problems 4. The Search for a "Back": Archivists of Memory 5. Beyond "Spooky Action at a Distance": An Ethnography of the Future

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Book SynopsisThe 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was supposed to be a stepping stone, a policy innovation announced by the White House designed to put pressure on Congress for a broader, lasting set of legislative changes. Those changes never materialized, and the people who hoped to benefit from them have been forced to navigate a tense and contradictory policy landscape ever since, haunted by these unfulfilled promises. Legal Phantoms tells their story. After Congress failed to pass a comprehensive immigration bill in 2013, President Obama pivoted in 2014 to supplementing DACA with a deferred action program (known as DAPA) for the parents of citizens and lawful permanent residents and a DACA expansion (DACA+) in 2014. But challenges from Republican-led states prevented even these programs from going into effect. Interviews with would-be applicants, immigrant-rights advocates, and government officials reveal how such failed immigration-reform efforts continue to affect not only those who had hoped to benefit, but their families, communities, and the country in which they have made an uneasy home. Out of the ashes of these lost dreams, though, people find their own paths forward through uncharted legal territory with creativity and resistance.

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