Dramatized Vignettes for Improving Measurement among Immigration Court Watchers

• In Event: Courts on the Border: Judicial Institutions and Immigration

Brief Overview

We show how the dramatization of vignettes via short films about immigration court proceedings can improve measurement conducted in court observation studies. We apply our method to a study of court watching at the Atlanta Immigration Court.

Authors

• Jeffrey K. Staton, Emory University

• Devon Thurman, Emory University