Legal Displacement:
The Threat of Termination of Temporary Protected Status among Salvadorans in the United States
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https://doi.org/10.5377/typ.v1i38.13669Keywords:
Migration, Displacement, Immigration Law, US Immigration, El SalvadorAbstract
The 2018 decision by the US government to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Salvadorans, many of whom have lived in the US for decades. TPS has been contiguously reapproved for Salvadorans over many years, making it a liminal legal status that has come to resemble a permanent legal status. This paper examines the unsettling effects of this decision, should it be enforced. Conceptualizing such disruptions and contradictions wrapped up in the ending of TPS for Salvadorans as a confict of legal displacements, this analysis extends scholarship on the political, economic, and legal dynamics surrounding TPS and on the lived experiences of liminal legality.
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