Deferred action and the discretionary state: migration, precarity and resistanceFootnote^*

^*Earlier versions of this paper were presented at UC Santa Cruz at the ‘Rethinking Migration Conference’ sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and at the Latin American Studies Association meeting.

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