Latin American Research Review 605 An explanatory framework based on administrative obstructionism applies to other issues and countries. Governments around the world are taking furtive and incremental steps through processes of democratic erosion and backsliding to constrain autonomous actors from engaging in full political contestation. In this nationalist era, the same is no doubt happening to deprive people of their rightful citizenship; we are likely to see strategies similar to the ones analyzed here unfold across the globe. Acknowledgements. We are grateful to the following individuals for their feedback and other forms of assistance with the manuscript: Dan Brinks, Danilo Contreras, Ariel Dulitzky, Zach Elkins, Ken Greene, Yanilda González, Eve Hayes de Kalaf, Alisha Holland, Michelle Martinez, and Kurt Weyland. We owe special thanks to Raúl Madrid, who read the piece with exceptional care and insight, and to Michaela Urban, who provided positively superb research assistance. Wendy Hunter, Professor of Government at the University of Texas, Austin, has written on broad-ranging topics concerning Brazilian politics. She is currently researching the relationship between identity documentation, individual social and political protection, and group empowerment in the Global South. She is the author of Undocumented Nationals: Between Statelessness and Citizenship (2019), and articles in World Politics and the Journal of Development Studies on birth registration and welfare enhancement. Francesca Reece graduated from the University of Texas, Austin, in May 2019 with a BA in Plan II Honors and Government with Highest Honors. She is a manager in the Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division at the Texas Department of Public Safety. References Ahmed, Azam. 2015. “Haitian Workers Facing Deportation by Dominican Neighbors.” New York Times, June 16. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/world/americas/migrant-workers-in-dominican-republic-most-ofthem-haitian-face-deportation.html. Alrabe, Khaled, Jamie Armstrong, B. Shaw Drake, Kimberly Fetsick, Elizabeth Gibson, Tabitha King, Young-Min Kwon, and Franziska Veh. 2013. Left Behind: How Statelessness in the Dominican Republic Limits Children’s Access to Education. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Law Center. Amnesty International. 2015. Sin papeles no soy nadie. London: Amnesty International. https://www.amnesty.org/ es/documents/amr27/2755/2015/es/. Amnesty International. 2019. Dominican Republic: Human Rights Guarantees Undermined. London: Amnesty International. Brewer-Carías, Allan R. 2009. Constitutional Protection of Human Rights in Latin America: A Comparative Study of Amparo Proceedings. New York: Cambridge University Press. Camilleri, Michael, and Danielle Edmonds. 2017. An Institution Worth Defending: The Inter-American Human Rights System in the Trump Era. Rule of Law Working Paper, June 2017. Washington, DC: The Dialogue. CEJIL. 2018. Asegurando el derecho a la nacionalidad sin discriminación y combatiendo la apatridia en República Dominicana. Santo Domingo: Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (CEJIL), Dominicanos por Derechos, y El Instituto de Apatridia e Inclusión. CESDEM. 2008. Encuesta sociodemográfica y sobre VIH/SIDA en los bateyes estatales de la República Dominicana 2007. Santo Domingo: Centro de Estudios Sociales y Demográficos. CESDEM. 2015. Encuesta sociodemográfica y sobre VIH/SIDA en los bateyes estatales de la República Dominicana 2013. Santo Domingo: Centro de Estudios Sociales y Demográficos y ICF International. Contreras, Danilo Antonio. 2016. “Exit over Voice in Dominican Ethnoracial Politics.” Latin American Research Review 51 (3): 202–226. https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2016.0041. Corbacho, Ana, Steve Brito, and René Osorio Rivas. 2013. Does Birth Under-registration Reduce Childhood Immunization? Evidence form the Dominican Republic. Working Paper 448. Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank. Corbacho, Ana, and René Osorio Rivas. 2012. Travelling the Distance: A GPS-Based Study of the Access to Birth Registration Services in Latin America and the Caribbean. Working Paper 307. Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank. De Vos, Christian M. 2013. From Rights to Remedies: Structures and Strategies for Implementing International Human Rights Decisions. Open Society Justice Initiative Report. New York: Open Society Foundations. https://doi.org/10.1017/lar.2022.48 Published online by Cambridge University Press