Paper Trails: Migrants, Documents, and Legal Insecurity
ISBN: 9781478012092
Platform/Publisher: e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection / Duke University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: chapter
Subjects: Chicanx and Latinx Studies; Anthropology / Cultural Anthropology; Sociology / Migration Studies;

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

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 .

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