The contributors to Paper Trails examine migrants' relationship to the state through requirements to obtain identification documents in order to get legal status.

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

Sarah B. Horton is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Denver, and author of They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields: Illness, Injury, and Illegality among U.S. Farmworkers.

Josiah Heyman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas--El Paso, and coeditor of The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region: Cultural Dynamics and Historical Interactions.