| Legalizing moves: Salvadoran immigrants' struggle for US residency SB Coutin University of Michigan Press, 2003 | 911 | 2003 |
| “Awakening to a Nightmare” Abjectivity and Illegality in the Lives of Undocumented 1.5-Generation Latino Immigrants in the United States RG Gonzales, LR Chavez, DA Boehm, CB Brettell, SB Coutin, JX Inda, ... Current anthropology 53 (3), 000-000, 2012 | 337 | 2012 |
| Nations of emigrants: Shifting boundaries of citizenship in El Salvador and the United States SB Coutin Cornell University Press, 2007 | 304 | 2007 |
| The culture of protest: Religious activism and the US sanctuary movement. SB Coutin | 284 | 1991 |
| Toward a critical anthropology of security DM Goldstein, R Albro, C Besteman, SB Coutin, J Burrell, D Fox, ... Current anthropology 51 (4), 000-000, 2010 | 227 | 2010 |
| Being en route SB Coutin American Anthropologist 107 (2), 195-206, 2005 | 204 | 2005 |
| Contesting criminality: Illegal immigration and the spatialization of legality SB Coutin Theoretical Criminology 9 (1), 5-33, 2005 | 183 | 2005 |
| Cultural logics of belonging and movement Transnationalism, naturalization, and US immigration politics SB Coutin American ethnologist 30 (4), 508-526, 2003 | 171 | 2003 |
| Backed by papers: Undoing persons, histories, and return B Yngvesson American ethnologist 33 (2), 177-190, 2006 | 138 | 2006 |
| From Refugees to Immigrants: The Legalization Strategies of Salvadoran Immigrants and Activists SB Coutin International Migration Review 32 (4), 901-925, 1998 | 138 | 1998 |
| Confined within: National territories as zones of confinement SB Coutin Political Geography 29 (4), 200-208, 2010 | 125 | 2010 |
| “Your friend, the illegal:” Definition and paradox in newspaper accounts of US immigration reform SB Coutin, PP Chock Identities 2 (1-2), 123-148, 1995 | 111 | 1995 |
| Illegality, borderlands, and the space of nonexistence SB Coutin Globalization under construction: Governmentality, law, and identity, 171-202, 2003 | 104 | 2003 |
| Remitting subjects: migrants, money and states E Hernandez, SB Coutin Economy and Society 35 (02), 185-208, 2006 | 103 | 2006 |
| In the mirror: the legitimation work of globalization SB Coutin, B Maurer, B Yngvesson Law & Social Inquiry 27 (4), 801-843, 2002 | 94 | 2002 |
| Denationalization, inclusion, and exclusion: negotiating the boundaries of belonging SB Coutin Ind. J. Global Legal Stud. 7, 585, 1999 | 85 | 1999 |
| The oppressed, the suspect, and the citizen: Subjectivity in competing accounts of political violence SB Coutin Law & Social Inquiry 26 (1), 63-94, 2001 | 73 | 2001 |
| Falling outside: Excavating the history of Central American asylum seekers SB Coutin Law & Social Inquiry 36 (3), 569-596, 2011 | 70 | 2011 |
| Deportation studies: origins, themes and directions SB Coutin Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 41 (4), 671-681, 2015 | 67 | 2015 |
| Smugglers or Samaritans in Tucson, Arizona: producing and contesting legal truth SB Coutin American Ethnologist 22 (3), 549-571, 1995 | 66 | 1995 |
Bill MaurerProfessor of Anthropology and Law, UC Irvine. Publications also at http://escholarship.org/Verified email at uci.edu
