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Family activism : immigrant struggles and the politics of noncitizenship / Amalia Pallares.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Latinidad: transnational cultures in the United StatesPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2015Description: xvii, 170 pages illustrations 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780813564579
  • 9780813564562
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 325.73 23
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Immigrant Rights Activism and the Family Paradox1 From Reunification to Separation2 A Tale of Sanctuary: Agency, Representativity, and Motherhood3 Regarding Family: From Local to National Activism4 Our Youth, Our Families: DREAM Act Politics and Neoliberal NationalismConclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-155) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Immigrant Rights Activism and the Family Paradox1 From Reunification to Separation2 A Tale of Sanctuary: Agency, Representativity, and Motherhood3 Regarding Family: From Local to National Activism4 Our Youth, Our Families: DREAM Act Politics and Neoliberal NationalismConclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Also issued online.