Family activism immigrant struggles and the politics of noncitizenship
"Drawing upon the idea of the "impossible activism" of undocumented immigrants, Amalia Pallares argues that those without legal status defy this "impossible" context by relying on the politicization of the family to challenge justice within contemporary immigration law. The...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers Univ. Press
2015
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| Schriftenreihe: | Latinidad
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Immigrant families / United States
> Families / Political aspects / United States
> Immigrants / United States / Social conditions
> Immigrant families / Illinois / Chicago
> Immigrants / Illinois / Chicago / Social conditions
> SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies
> Einwanderer
> Migration
> Politik
> Aktivismus
> Rechtsstellung
> Einwanderung
> Familie
> United States / Emigration and immigration
> United States / Emigration and immigration / Government policy
> Chicago (Ill.) / Emigration and immigration
> USA
> Chicago, Ill.
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Drawing upon the idea of the "impossible activism" of undocumented immigrants, Amalia Pallares argues that those without legal status defy this "impossible" context by relying on the politicization of the family to challenge justice within contemporary immigration law. The culmination of a seven-year-long ethnography of undocumented immigrants and their families in Chicago, as well as national immigrant politics, Family Activism examines the ways in which the family has become politically significant"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-155) and index Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Immigrant Rights Activism and the Family Paradox -- 1. From Reunification to Separation -- 2. A Tale of Sanctuary: Agency, Representativity, and Motherhood -- 3. Regarding Family: From Local to National Activism -- 4. Our Youth, Our Families: DREAM Act Politics and Neoliberal Nationalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Beschreibung: | XVII, 170 S., [4] Bl. Ill. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0813564573 0-8135-6457-3 9780813564579 978-0-8135-6457-9 0813564565 0-8135-6456-5 9780813564562 978-0-8135-6456-2 9780813564586 978-0-8135-6458-6 |