Susan Bibler Coutin is Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States;¿Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants’ Struggle for U.S. Residency;¿and The Culture of Protest: Religious Activism and the U.S. Sanctuary Movement.

Acknowledgments  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

Susan Bibler Coutin is Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States; Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants’ Struggle for U.S. Residency; and The Culture of Protest: Religious Activism and the U.S. Sanctuary Movement.