Smugglers or samaritans in Tucson, Arizona

Producing and Contesting Legal Truth

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2467142
AutoresB Coutin (0000-0003-1065-2769, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, autor correspondente), Susan Bibler Coutin
Ano1995
Volume22
Fascículo3
Páginas549-571
Data de publicação1995-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.1995.22.3.02a00050
OpenAlexW2021824751
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas29
Referências citadas44

In 1985-86, 11 religious activists whose congregations had declared themselves sanctuaries for undocumented Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees were tried in Tucson, Arizona, on alien-smuggling charges. Although 8 of the 11 were convicted and although the verdicts were upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, the social and legal significance of the trial, and of the sanctuary movement itself, has continued to be negotiated by sanctuary activists. Examining the events that led to this trial, the trial itself, and the trial's aftermath sheds light on how legal truth is produced and contested both within and outside of courtrooms. [power, resistance, truth, sanctuary, prosecution, law

Environmental ethics · Political science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies