Being En Route
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2463806 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Coutin (0000-0003-1065-2769, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author), Susan Bibler Coutin |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 195-206 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/aa.2005.107.2.195 |
| OpenAlex | W2065785751 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 116 |
| References cited | 56 |
Through an ethnography of unauthorized migration from El Salvador to the United States, I explore "clandestinity" as a hidden, yet known, dimension of social reality. Unauthorized migrants who are en route to the United States have to make themselves absent from the spaces they occupy. When they become clandestine, such migrants embody illegality; in some cases, they literally "go underground" should they die and be buried en route. Because their presence is prohibited, unauthorized migrants do not fully arrive even when they reach their destinations. There are parallels between the ways that migrants are present in yet absent from nations, and the ways that ethnographers are present in yet absent from the field. This ethnography of migrants en route therefore suggests how anthropological knowledge practices also produce realities that are hidden, yet known
Criminology · Destinations · Dimension (graph theory · Ethnography · Ethnology · Field (mathematics · Genealogy · Parallels · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Sex work and related issues · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Reshaping ‘Frontiers of Violence’ from Europe to the Middle East
Slow legal violence and the undocumented 1.5 Generation
Precarious panels
Coyotes, caravans, and the Central American migrant smuggling continuum
Les ambiguïtés de l’hospitalité dans les casas de migrantes au Mexique
Informal Networks in the Black Sea Region
Minor keywords of political theory
Longing for Something Better
The Mexican war against drug cartels, traffickers’ collateral incentive to commit crimes against undocumented immigrants
Illegality and Invisibility at Margins and Borders
“You hold your life in your hands until you arrive in another country”
Good immigrants, permitted outsiders
Modes of Incorporation, Social Exclusion, and Transnationalism
The free movement of people around the world would be Utopian
Public and private photographs of refugees
L’illegalità diffusa in Italia
The mental well-being of Central American transmigrant men in Mexico
Boots for my Sancho ’
Strategies of survival, livelihood, and resistance in transit
Territory, rights, and migrant justice
They don't care about people; they only care about the money”
Cultivating Ethical and Politically Rooted Research Practices With Undocumented Migrants
Social and affective constitution of transit spaces
Comedy and refugee liminality
Fieldwork on Law
The Managed Violences of the Borderlands
Better than White trash”
Parents of global youth
The Politics of Data Access in Studying Violence across Methodological Boundaries
On migrants’ experiences of coloniality in the Turkish prison-industrial complex
Migration in the margins
Shades of grey’
Layered journeys
Searching for Directions
On the Inside
Migrations de la violence, violence en migration. Les vulnérabilités des populations centraméricaines en mobilité vers le Nord
Migration of Violence, Violence in migration. The Vulnerabilities of Central American Populations Going North
Achieving the goals – an analysis of irregular migrants’ possibilities to transform their space-times in Finland
The work of fluid metaphors in migration research
Scopic relations as spatial relations
Geographies of migration III
The reconceptualization of agency through ambiguity and contradiction
Temporality, refugees, and housing
Of spectacular phantasmal desire
Joining a migrant caravan
Why stay, why return
Differentiating Sedimented from Modular Transnationalism
Everyday Bordering and Migrant Schooling Timescapes in Post‐Crisis Athens
Immigrant “Illegality” as Neoliberal Governmentality in Leadville, Colorado
Less than Human? Diaspora, Disease and the Question of Citizenship
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
The Condition of Illegality
Strengthening Social Capital through Bilingual Competence in a Transnational Migrant Community
Fugitive Junctures
On not seeking asylum
Governing Hindu marriage or interreligious marriage
Becoming Fugitive
The limbo of post-war Sur
Hardwiring the frontier? The politics of security technology in Europe’s ‘fight against illegal migration
We are not animals!” Humanitarian border security and zoopolitical spaces in EUrope1
He must be a man'. Uncovering the gendered vulnerabilities of young Sub-Saharan African men in their journeys to and in Libya
Time and the Migrant Other
Misfits
Ethiopian girls narratives of risk and governance of circular migration to the Arabian Gulf
Improvised Transnationalism
The Categorized and Invisible
Learning in Transit
Más allá del Darién. Economía Política de la Migración en Tránsito por el Corredor Migratorio Región Andina-Centroamérica
A stage of limbo
QuestioningIllegality inEverydayLife
"It will kill your dreams, your goals, your everything"-Humanitarian migrants, governance through containment and the Italian accommodation system
Mobile sovereignty
Art and materiality in the global refugee crisis
Embodied Borders
Trapped in (In)visibility
Citizenship as Burden of Proof
Migrant melodrama and the political economy of suffering
Making Absence Visible
Citizenship in the Global South
Fixing the Border
Klokka tikker, tiden går
Transnational activities and aspirations of irregular migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands
Infrastructure of mobility
Lives in Waiting
Managing Crisis
Icons of Becoming
Nested Liminalities
Imigrantes ou refugiados? As tecnologias de governamentalidade e o êxodo palestino rumo ao Brasil no século XX
DispellingDoonhamers
Backed by papers
Being En Route
Time at Its Margins
The state of confusion
Migration, vehicles, and politics
About time
Temporary Measures
Stuck in Motion
Beyond Remittances
Citizens or Anticitizens? Afro-Descendants and Counternarcotics Policing in Multicultural Nicaragua
The Governance of Things
Shadowed lives
Pronouncing & persevering
Getting justice and getting even
Virtuous citizens, disruptive subjects
Nuclear Rites
The Network Inside Out
Rhetorics of Self-Making
Fertility Diminution in Female Rats with Experimental Chronic Nephrosis1
Latino cultural citizenship
Remaking Scale
Culture, Power, Place
Recharting the Caribbean
American dreaming
Border games
Impossible Subjects
Violence and Subjectivity
Transnationalism From Below
Growing Knowledge in Bolivip, Papua New Guinea
Methodologically Becoming
Globalisation or ‘glocalisation’? Networks, territories and rescaling
The Oppressed, the Suspect, and the Citizen
In the Mirror
The social construction of scale
The Demand for Immigrant Workers
The Demand for Immigrant Workers
Migradollars
The alchemy of race and rights
(Re)producing Salvadoran Transnational Geographies
Nation on the move
Naming Resistance
Audit Cultures
Ethnography in Unstable Places
Employer Sanctions Violations
Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism
Lives in limbo
Clamor at the Gates
Daily Life in the Transnational Migrant Community of San Agustín, Oaxaca, and Poughkeepsie, New York
The Context of Diaspora
Real time
Into committees, out of the house? Familiar forms in the organization of Palestinian committee activism during the first intifada
Faith and its fulfillment
Mothercraft, statecraft, and subjectivity in the Palestinian intifada
Pronouncing and Persevering
Being En Route
Coping with Bureaucracy
Charred Lullabies
Inside the Economy of Appearances
Anthropological and accounting knowledge in Islamic banking and finance
The Primacy of the Ethical
Sanctioned identities
Guatemalan Mayan migration to Los Angeles
| Unique citing works | 116 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,52 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 116 |