Susan Bibler Coutin
· Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and AnthropologyUniversity of California, Irvine · Criminology, Law and Society
Active 1993–2025
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About
Susan Bibler Coutin is an Associate Dean for Academic Programs and a Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Anthropology at UCI. Her research focuses on law, immigration, human rights, citizenship, and political activism. She is a faculty director at the UCI Law & Ethnography Lab, where she contributes her expertise in these areas to advance interdisciplinary scholarship and academic programs. Her work engages deeply with the intersections of legal systems and social issues, particularly in the context of immigration and human rights.
Research topics
- Sociology
- Political Science
- Law
- Public relations
- Criminology
- Computer Science
- History
- Pedagogy
- Psychoanalysis
- Public administration
Selected publications
The craft of translation: documentary practices within immigration advocacy in the United States
PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review · 2023 · 14 citations
1st authorCorrespondingAbstract This article builds on anthropological research on bureaucratic inscription as a power‐laden process to explore the craft of document translation in contexts of immigration legal advocacy. In a legal climate characterized by suspicion and resource scarcity, immigrants who seek to regularize their status in the United States face steep evidentiary challenges, including the requirement that all documentation, including records from their countries of origin, letters of support from friend…
12. Exiled by Law: Deportation and the Inviability of Life
Duke University Press eBooks · 2020 · 9 citations
1st authorCorrespondingEquity in Education & Society · 2023 · 4 citations
Diversity work remains one of the most critical, yet complicated and contentious efforts in higher education. To promote transformative institutional change, a university in California, United States developed an innovative, federally funded community-building model designed to institutionalize diversity efforts. As part of this model, a cross-sectional climate survey was administered in 2010, 2014, and 2018 to learn more about perceptions of campus diversity-oriented work. We present a qualitat…
Otro mundo es posible (Another World Is Possible)
2025-08-05
book-chapterOpen access1st authorCorrespondingBanished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation
CrimRxiv · 2025-05-29
preprintOpen access1st authorCorrespondingThe concept of adminigration provides a much-needed lens in theorizing immigration enforcement, citizenship, and urban geographies. We define adminigration as the governance of immigrant community members through city-level policies and programs, whether or not these explicitly focus on immigrants. Our focus on adminigration involves three theoretical interventions: (1) bridging literature on immigrant bureaucratic incorporation and crimmigration to situate city-level administrative practices wi…
Recent grants
NSF · $137k · 2006–2011
Executive Relief and the Roles of Mediating Institutions in Immigration Law and Policy
NSF · $230k · 2015–2019
NSF · $290k · 2011–2015
Frequent coauthors
- 26 shared
Barbara Yngvesson
- 22 shared
Jennifer M. Chacón
- 10 shared
Stephen Lee
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
- 8 shared
Stephen Lee
- 8 shared
Sameer M. Ashar
- 4 shared
Ester Hernández
- 4 shared
Alma Nidia Garza
The University of Texas at Arlington
- 4 shared
Edelina M. Burciaga
Labs
Education
Ph.D., sociocultural anthropology
Stanford University
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