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Family Activism: Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship
Amalia Pallares
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Hardback. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Series
Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813564579
SKU
V9780813564579
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About Amalia Pallares
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.
Reviews for Family Activism: Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship
"In this compelling and highly original work, Pallares illustrates how Latino activists frame the family to contest immigrants' negative representation and to make counterclaims on behalf of unauthorized and mixed-status families."
Pat Zavella
author of I'm Neither Here Nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty
"Family Activism is a timely, compelling, and significant contribution to understanding the desperation ... Read more
Pat Zavella
author of I'm Neither Here Nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty
"Family Activism is a timely, compelling, and significant contribution to understanding the desperation ... Read more