Indignation and Intelligibility: Contradictions that Place Vulnerable Populations ‘Off the Grid’

Our paper draws on our ethnographic work regarding transnational adoption, unauthorized immigration, and deportation in order to examine the grids of intelligibility that produce adoptability and deportability. Adoptable babies, unauthorized migrants, and deportable aliens are, in some sense “off...

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Main Authors: Susan Bibler Coutin, Barbara Yngvesson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2014-06-01
Series:Oñati Socio-Legal Series
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Online Access:https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/415
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