Luis Xavier Guaman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4896306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luis Xavier Guaman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luis Xavier |
| FAMILY NAME | Guaman |
| SIGNATURE | GUAMAN L X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Empty Justice: Ethnographic Court‐Witnessing in Authoritarian Times
This article investigates the operations of United States immigration courts ethnographically, examining how law, politics, and bureaucracy converge in the everyday production of immigration adjudication. Based on over 500 h of observation in 36 courtrooms across 11 immigration courts, we document how life‐altering deportation decisions—often in absentia and lasting only minutes—are rendered through routinized procedures that obscure judicial amb…
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Empty Justice: Ethnographic Court‐Witnessing in Authoritarian Times
This article investigates the operations of United States immigration courts ethnographically, examining how law, politics, and bureaucracy converge in the everyday production of immigration adjudication. Based on over 500 h of observation in 36 courtrooms across 11 immigration courts, we document how life‐altering deportation decisions—often in absentia and lasting only minutes—are rendered through routinized procedures that obscure judicial amb…
Authoritarianism (1 works) · Bureaucracy (1 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (1 works) · Deportation (1 works) · Ethnography (1 works) · Immigration (1 works) · Law in Society and Culture (1 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (1 works) · Politics (1 works) · Scholarship (1 works)