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Marcha: Latino Chicago and the Immigrant Rights Movement
Amalia Pallares
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Description for Marcha: Latino Chicago and the Immigrant Rights Movement
Paperback. A multidisciplinary survey of the individuals, organizations, and institutions that have given shape and power to the contemporary immigrant rights movement in Chicago. Editor(s): Pallares, Amalia; Flores-Gonzalez, Nilda. Series: Latinos in Chicago and Midwest. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 black & white photographs, 18 charts, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 1KLCM; JFFN; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Marcha is a multidisciplinary survey of the individuals, organizations, and institutions that have given shape and power to the contemporary immigrant rights movement in Chicago. A city with longstanding historic ties to immigrant activism, Chicago has been the scene of a precedent-setting immigrant rights mobilization in 2006 and subsequent mobilizations in 2007 and 2008.
Positing Chicago as a microcosm of the immigrant rights movement on national level, these essays plumb an extraordinarily rich set of data regarding recent immigrant rights activities, defining the cause as not just a local quest for citizenship rights, but a panethnic, transnational movement. The ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Latinos in Chicago and Midwest
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252077166
SKU
V9780252077166
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About Amalia Pallares
Amalia Pallares is an associate professor of political science and Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of From Peasant Struggles to Indian Resistance: The Ecuadorian Andes in the Late Twentieth Century.Nilda Flores-González is an associate professor of sociology and Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago ... Read more
Reviews for Marcha: Latino Chicago and the Immigrant Rights Movement
"Marcha brings together a diverse array of complementary analyses of the key actors, ideas, and institutions of the spring 2006 immigrant rights mobilization, the largest single wave of street protests in U.S. history."
Jonathan Fox, author of Accountability Politics: Power and Voice in Rural Mexico
Jonathan Fox, author of Accountability Politics: Power and Voice in Rural Mexico