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Family activism : immigrant struggles and the politics of noncitizenship
- Title
- Family activism : immigrant struggles and the politics of noncitizenship / Amalia Pallares.
- Author
- Pallares, Amalia, 1965-
- Publication
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2015.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 170 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Latinidad: transnational cultures in the United States
- Uniform Title
- Latinidad.
- Subject
- Immigrant families > United States
- Families > Political aspects > United States
- Immigrants > United States > Social conditions
- Immigrant families > Illinois > Chicago
- Immigrants > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions
- United States > Emigration and immigration
- United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy
- Chicago (Ill.) > Emigration and immigration
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-155) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-2931
- ISBN
- 9780813564579
- 0813564573
- 9780813564562
- 0813564565
- 9780813564586 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014014277
- 40024389145
- OCLC
- 878111499
- Author
- Pallares, Amalia, 1965-
- Title
- Family activism : immigrant struggles and the politics of noncitizenship / Amalia Pallares.
- Publisher
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Latinidad: transnational cultures in the United StatesLatinidad.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-155) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40024389145
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-2931