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Susan Bibler Coutin serves as Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Anthropology within the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine, and maintains affiliations with Border Criminologies.
Her research centers on social, political, and legal activism surrounding immigration, with specialized focus on El Salvadoran migration to the United States. She examines nation-based membership categories through 1.5-generation migrant experiences, analyzes the aftermath of violence on transnational youth, and investigates evolving concepts of citizenship under executive immigration relief policies like DACA. Her work bridges legal anthropology and criminology to explore how temporary legal statuses reshape membership in the American polity.
Professor Coutin currently leads an NSF-funded collaborative project examining President Obama's 2014 Executive Relief policies, analyzing applicant experiences with litigation-induced delays, civil society organizations' roles in application facilitation, and how contingent legal statuses redefine collective understandings of national membership.
