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A common humanity : ritual, religion, and immigrant advocacy in Tucson, Arizona / Lane Van Ham.
Lippincott Library HD8081.H7 V36 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Ham, Lane Vernon, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign workers--Arizona.
- Foreign workers.
- Latin Americans--Employment--Arizona.
- Latin Americans.
- Latin Americans--Arizona--Social life and customs.
- Latin Americans--Employment.
- Arizona.
- Manners and customs.
- Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 219 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Beginning in the 1990s, the Us government effectively sealed off the most common border crossing routes. This had the unintended effect of forcing desperate people to seek new paths across open desert. At least 4,000 of them died between 1995 and 2009. While some Americans thought the dead had gotten. What they deserved other Americans organized humanitarian aid groups. This book examines some of the most active aid organizations in Tucson, Arizona, which has become a hotbed of advocacy on behalf of undocumented immigrants.
- Beautifully written and immensely engaging, A common Humanity adds a valuable dimension to the immigration bebate, arguing that immigrants are entitled to humane treatment based on universal human values. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Migrant deaths and immigrant advocacy in southern Arizona
- Interstice: Annie, during a Samaritan patrol, 2005
- Political imagination in the United States
- Interstice: an undated memo during fieldwork
- US-Mexico border enforcement and the emergence of immigrant advocacy in Tucson
- Interstice : field notes from the NMD Maricopa station, 2006
- Immigrant advocacy in Tucson responds to the gatekeeper complex
- Interstice : notes from a Derechos Humanos meeting, 2005
- Individual worldviews : humanity, nationality, and ultimacy
- Collective expression: dramatizing the crisis
- The El Tiradito vigil
- Memorial marches
- Interstice : memo on a Samaritans trip, 2004
- Ritual transformation and cosmopolitics in Tucson immigrant advocacy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816529650
- 0816529655
- OCLC:
- 713192635
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