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Family Activism: Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship
Family Activism: Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship
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During the past ten years, legal and political changes in the United States have dramatically altered the legalization process for millions of undocumented immigrants and their families. Faced with fewer legalization options, immigrants without legal status and their supporters have organized around the concept of the family as a political subject-a political subject with its rights violated by immigration laws.
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 three ways in which the family has become politically significant: as a political subject, as a frame for immigrant rights activism, and as a symbol of racial subordination and resistance.
By analyzing grassroots campaigns, churches and interfaith coalitions, immigrant rights movements, and immigration legislation, Pallares challenges the traditional familial idea, ultimately reframing the family as a site of political struggle and as a basis for mobilization in immigrant communities.
Author: Amalia Pallares
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 11/30/2014
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780813564562
Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2015
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 three ways in which the family has become politically significant: as a political subject, as a frame for immigrant rights activism, and as a symbol of racial subordination and resistance.
By analyzing grassroots campaigns, churches and interfaith coalitions, immigrant rights movements, and immigration legislation, Pallares challenges the traditional familial idea, ultimately reframing the family as a site of political struggle and as a basis for mobilization in immigrant communities.
Author: Amalia Pallares
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 11/30/2014
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780813564562
Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2015
About the Author
AMALIA PALLARES is an associate professor of political science and the director of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of From Peasant Struggles to Indian Resistance: The Ecuadorian Andes in the Late Twentieth Century and the coeditor of Marcha: Latino Chicago and the Immigrant Rights Movement.
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