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 2nd.
- 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.