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