Publications

Exiled Home:  Salvadoran Transnational Youth in the Aftermath of Violence  Durham:  Duke University Press. (published May 2016)  https://www.dukeupress.edu/exiled-home

2000  Legalizing Moves:  Salvadoran Immigrants’ Struggle for U.S. Residency.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

 

2007 Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

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2016.   Special Issue. “Migrant Narratives and Ethnographic Tropes:  Navigating Tragedy, Creating Possibility.”  (Coedited with Erica Vogel)  Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 45(6).  http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0891241616652193

 

• Reiter, Keramet and Susan Bibler Coutin.  2017.  “Crossing Borders and Criminalizing Identity: The Disintegrated Subjects of Administrative Sanctions.”  Law and Society Review.  51: 567–601.  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lasr.12281/epdf?author_access_token=jWUT6yyctPoFszaBIh-ETYta6bR2k8jH0KrdpFOxC66JAwPrCJzBxy-Aryj4FcxGmU2g8x3HSaV-GHU1WA_5PoVdHiI0pI6As5Qoq410Zs8pSbebpQi0WPX2VqV5rw0Y
• Coutin, Susan Bibler.  2017.  “Sanctuary.”  Law and Society Review Blogspot.  http://lawandsocietyreview.blogspot.com/2017/07/sanctuary.html 
• Coutin, Susan Bibler.  2017.  “A Distorted Image of Immigrants.”  PoLAR:  Political and Legal Anthropology Review website.  https://politicalandlegalanthro.org/2017/02/14/a-distorted-image-of-immigrants/
• Bradford, Anita Casavantes, Laura Enriquez and Susan Coutin.  2017.  “10 Ways to Support Students Facing Immigration Crises.”  Inside Higher Education.  https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2017/01/31/how-faculty-members-and-administrators-can-help-immigrant-students-essay.  Posted:  January 31.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler, Jennifer Chacón, Sameer Ashar, and Stephen Lee.  2017.  “Trump’s Policies Will Affect Four Groups of Immigrants.”  The Conversation.   https://theconversation.com/trumps-policies-will-affect-four-groups-of-undocumented-immigrants-70467.  Posted:  January 26.  Updated:  January 31.
•  Gabriella Lifsec.  2016.  “Nation of Emigrants: An Interview with Susan Coutin.”  The Worker Institute, Industrial and Labor Relations School, Cornell University.  Available at https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/mobilizing-against-inequality/post/nation-emigrants-interview-susan-coutin  Posted:  December 2^nd.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler and Erica Vogel.  2016.  “Special Issue:  Migrant Narratives and Ethnographic Tropes:  Navigating Tragedy, Creating Possibility.”  Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 45(6):631-644.
• Ashar, Sameer, Edelina M. Burciaga, Jennifer M. Chacón, Susan Bibler Coutin, Alma Nidia Garza and Stephen Lee.  2015.  Navigating Liminal Legalities along Pathways to Citizenship:  Immigrant Vulnerability and the Role of Mediating Institutions.  Russell Sage Foundation.  Available at  http://www.russellsage.org/research/reports/navigating-liminal-legalities-along-pathways-to-citizenship-immigrant-vulnerability-and-role-mediati
• Coutin, Susan Bibler.”  2015.  “Meet the Experts.”  Interview available at https://wallethub.com/edu/states-where-hispanics-are-most-assimilated/15591/#susan-bibler-coutin
• Coutin, Susan Bibler and Veronique Fortin.  (2015).  “Legal Ethnographies and Ethnographic Law.”  Wiley Handbook of Law and Society, Austin Sarat and Patricia Ewick, eds
• Yngvesson, Barbara and Susan Bibler Coutin.  2015.  “Indignation and Intelligibility:  Contradictions that Place Vulnerable Populations ‘Off the Grid.’”  Oñati Socio-Legal Series
• Sean Mallin, Susan Coutin and Sally Merry.  2014.  “Interview:  Coutin & Merry.”  PoLAR On-line. http://www.polaronline.org/virtual-issues/law-and-inequalities/interview-coutin-merry/
• Susan Bibler Coutin.  2014.  “Susan Coutin — on US Immigration Reform, Youth Migration, the 2014 ‘Border Crisis’ and the Current Model of Immigration Law and Policymaking.”  Meridian Beat:  Citizens and Strangers, Cornell University.  http://meridian-180.org/en/meridian-beat-citizens-and-strangers.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler, Justin Richland, and Veronique Fortin.  (2014.)  “Routine Exceptionality:  The Plenary Power Doctrine, Immigrants, and the Indigenous under US Law.”  University of California, Irvine Law Review
• Coutin, Susan Bibler.  2014.  “Demystifying Section Presidency.”  Anthropology News. http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2014/05/02/demystifying-the-a…
• Coutin, Susan Bibler.  2014.  Contributor to Canada Fulbright Blog, “The United States of America:  The Neighbor You Don’t Know.” Available at http://www.fulbrightblog.ca/
• Merry, Sally and Susan Bibler Coutin.  2014.  “Technologies of Truth in the Anthropology of Conflict.” American Ethnologist 41(1):1-16
• Menjívar, Cecilia and Susan Bibler Coutin.  2014.  “Challenges of Recognition, Participation and Representation for the Legally Liminal: A Comment.”  In J. Handmaker, ed., Migration, Gender and Social Justice, 325-330.   Springer
• Coutin, Susan Bibler.  2013.  “Meet Our Contributor:  Susan Bibler Coutin.”  Allegra:  A Virtual Lab of Legal Anthropology.  Available at  http://allegralaboratory.net/a-conversation-with-susan-bibler-coutin/
• Seron, Carroll, Susan Bibler Coutin and Pauline White Meeusen.  2013.  “Is there a Canon in Law and Social Sciences?”  Annual Review of Law & Social Sciences 9:287-306
• Coutin, Susan Bibler.  2013.  “Place and Presence within Salvadoran Deportees’ Narratives of Removal.” Childhood  20(3):323-336
• Coutin, Susan Bibler.  2013.  “In the Breach:  Citizenship and its Approximations.”  Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 20(1):109-140
• McGuire, Connie and Susan Bibler Coutin.  2013.  “Transnational alienage and foreignness: Deportees and foreign service officers in Central America.”  Identities:  Global Studies in Culture and Power. 20(6), 689-704
• Katie Dingeman-Cerda and Susan Bibler Coutin.  2012  “The Ruptures of Return:  Deportation’s Confounding Effects.”  In Charis M. Kubrin, Marjorie S. Zatz, and Ramiro Martinez, Jr. eds., Punishing Immigrants:  Policy, Politics and Injustice,  pp. 113-137.  New York:  New York University Press
• Coutin, Susan Bibler.  2012.  Comment on Gonzales and Chavez, “’Awakening to a Nightmare.’” Current Anthropology 53(3):270-271
• Coutin, Susan Bibler.  2011.  “The Rights of Non-Citizens in the United States.”  Annual Review of Law & Social Science. Vol. 7: 289-308
• Coutin, Susan Bibler.  2011.  “Falling Outside:  Excavating the History of Central American Asylum Seekers.” Law & Social Inquiry 36(3):569-596.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler.  2011.  “Prohibited Realities and Fractured Persons:  Remaking Livdes in Transnational Spaces.”  Issues in Legal Scholarship 9(1):  Article 8.  (Denaturalizing Citizenship:  a Symposium on Linda Bosniak’s The Citizen and the Alien and Ayelet Shachar’s The Birthright Lottery).  Available at: http://www.bepress.com/ils/vol9/iss1/art8.
• Coutin, Susan.  2011.  “Comment:  The Violence of Being Not Quite There.”  Law, Culture, and the Humanities7(3):457-462.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler.  2011.  “A Report on the Deportation of Salvadorans Who Immigrated to the United States as Children.”  Anthropology of Children and Childhood Newsletter 3(1):4-5.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler.  2011  “’Robbed of a Different Life’:  Alternative Histories, Interrupted Futures.”  In Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson, and Jeremy Webber, eds., Storied Communities:  Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community, pp. 245-267.  Vancouver:  UBC Press.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler.  2011.  “Legal Exclusion and Dislocated Subjectivities:  The Deportation of Salvadoran Youth from the United States.”  In V.J. Squire, ed., The Contested Politics of Mobility:  Borderzones and Irregularity, pp. 169-183.  London:  Routledge.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler.  2010.  “Originary Destinations:  Re/membered Communities and Salvadoran Diasporas.”  Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 39(1-2): 47-72.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler.  2010.  “Confined Within:  National Territories as Zones of Confinement.”   Political Geography 29(4):200-208.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler.  2010.  “Exiled by Law:  Deportation and the Inviability of Life.”  In The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement, Nathalie Peutz and Nicholas de Genova, eds., Duke University Press.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler.  2009.  “Migrants’ Complex Affiliations.”  Focus on Law Studies 24(2):2-3, 10
• Symposium, 2008 “Law, Ethnography, and the Limits of Explanation.” (Co-edited with Barbara Yngvesson) PoLAR:  Political and Legal Anthropology Review 31(1).
• Coutin, Susan Bibler. 2008. “Subverting Discourses of Risk in the War on Terror.” In Risk and the War on Terror, Louise Amoore and Marieke de Goede, eds., pp. 218-232. New York: Routledge.
• Yngvesson, Barbara and Susan Bibler Coutin. 2008. “Schrodinger’s Cat and the Ethnography of Law.” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 31(1):61-78.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler. 2006. “Cause Lawyering and Political Advocacy: Moving Law on Behalf of Central American Refugees.” In Cause Lawyering and Social Movements, Austin Sarat and Stu Scheingold, eds., pp. 101-119. Stanford University Press.
• Hernandez, Ester and Susan Bibler Coutin. 2006. “Remitting Subjects: Migrants, Money, and States.” Economy and Society 35(2):185-208.
• Yngvesson, Barbara and Susan Bibler Coutin. 2006. “Backed by Papers: Undoing Persons, Histories, and Return.” American Ethnologist 33(2):177-190.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler. 2006. “Law on the Ground: Jurisdiction, Affiliation, and Transnational Law-making within Unauthorized Migration from El Salvador to the United States,” Special issue on “Law Beyond Borders: Jurisdiction in an Era of Globalization,” Wayne Law Review 51(3):1147-1159.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler. 2005. “Being en Route.” American Anthropologist 107(2):195-206.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler. 2005. “The Formation and Transformation of Central American Community Organizations in Los Angeles.” In Latino Los Angeles: Transformations, Communities, and Activism, Gilda Ochoa and Enrique Ochoa, eds., pp. 155-177. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler. 2005. “Contesting Criminality: Illegal Immigration and the Spatialization of Legality.” Theoretical Criminology 9(1):5-33.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler. 2003. “Borderlands, Illegality and the Spaces of Non-existence.” In Globalization and Governmentalities, Richard Perry and Bill Maurer, eds. University of Minnesota Press, pp. 171-202.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler. 2003. “Cultural Logics of Belonging and Movement: Transnationalism, Naturalization, and U.S. Immigration Politics.” American Ethnologist 30(4):508-526.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler. 2003. “Suspension of Deportation Hearings: Racialization, Immigration, and ‘Americanness.'” Journal of Latin American Anthropology 8(2):58-95.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler, Bill Maurer, and Barbara Yngvesson. 2002. “In the Mirror: The Legitimation Work of Globalization.” Law and Social Inquiry 27(4):801-843. (Awarded the 2002 Law and Society Association best article prize.)
• Coutin, Susan Bibler. 2002. “Reconceptualizing Research: Ethnographic Fieldwork and Immigration Politics in Southern California.” In Practicing Ethnography in Law: New Dialogues, Enduring Methods, June Starr and Mark Goodale, eds., pp. 108-127. New York: Palgrave.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler. 2001. “Questionable Transactions as Grounds for Legalization: Immigration, Illegality and Law.” Crime, Law and Social Change 37:19-36.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler. 2001. “Cause Lawyering in the Shadow of the State: A U.S. Immigration Example.” In Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era, Austin Sarat and Stu Scheingold, eds., pp. 117-140 Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler. 2001 “The Oppressed, the Suspect, and the Citizen: Subjectivity in Competing Accounts of Political Violence.” Law and Social Inquiry 26(1):63-94.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler. 2000. “Denationalization, Inclusion, and Exclusion: Negotiating the Boundaries of Belonging.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 7(2):585-593.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler. 1999 “Clandestinity and Citizenship among Salvadoran Immigrants.” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 22(2):53-63.
• Coutin, Susan bibler. 1998 “From Refugees to Immigrants: The Legalization Strategies of Salvadoran Immigrants and Activists.” International Migration Review 32(4):901-925.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler and Susan F. Hirsch. 1998 “Naming Resistance: Dissidents, States and Ethnographers.” Anthropology Quarterly 71(1):1-17.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler. 1996 “‘Differences’ within Accounts of U.S. Immigration Law.” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 19(1):11-20.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler. 1995 “‘Your Friend, the Illegal’: Definition and Paradox within Newspaper Accounts of Immigration Reform.” Co-authored with Phyllis Chock. Identities 2(1-2):123-148.
• Coutin, susan Bibler. 1995 “Smugglers or Samaritans in Tucson, Arizona: Producing and Contesting Legal Truth.” American Ethnologist. 22(3):549-571.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler. 1995 “Ethnographies of Violence: Law, Dissidence, and the State.” Review essay for Law and Society Review. 29(3):517-539.
• Coutin, Susan Bibler. 1994″Enacting Law as Social Practice: The U.S. Sanctuary Movement as a Mode of Resistance.” In Susan Hirsch and Mindie Lazarus-Black, eds., Contested States: Law, Hegemony, and Resistance, pp. 282-303. New York: Routledge.
• Coutin, Susann Bibler. 1993 “The Chicago Seven and the Sanctuary Eleven: Conspiracy and Spectacle within U.S. Courts.” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 16(3):19-28.