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Susan Bibler Coutin
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Professor, Criminology, Law and Society; Anthropology
Ph.D., Sociocultural Anthropology, Stanford University, 1990
Phone: 824-1447
Office: 2369 SEII
Susan Bibler Coutin holds a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology and is associate professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine. Her research has examined social, political, and legal activism surrounding immigration issues, particularly immigration from El Salvador to the United States. Her first book, THE CULTURE OF PROTEST: RELIGIOUS ACTIVISM AND THE U.S. SANCTUARY MOVEMENT (Westview 1993) analyzed how congregations that declared themselves "sanctuaries" for Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees constructed a means and a language of protesting U.S. refugee and foreign policy in the 1980s. Her second book, LEGALIZING MOVES: SALVADORAN IMMIGRANTS' STRUGGLE FOR U.S. RESIDENCY (U. Michigan Press, 2000), analyzed how Salvadoran immigrants negotiated their legal identities in the United States in the 1990s, a period characterized by immigration reform in the U.S. and post-war reconstruction in El Salvador. Her current project identifies the new and not-so-new forms of citizenship and belonging that are being forged as Salvadoran immigrants in the U.S. negotiate their relationships to their countries of origin and residence.
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Web Links of Research Sites
Selected Publications
- Forthcoming. Nations of Emigrants. Ithaca: Cornell 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.
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