Family activism : immigrant struggles and the politics of noncitizenship / Amalia Pallares.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pallares, Amalia, 1965- author.

Series:

Latinidad.

Latinidad : Transnational Cultures in the United States

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrant families--United States.

Immigrant families.

Families--Political aspects--United States.

Families.

Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Immigrant families--Illinois--Chicago.

Immigrants--Illinois--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

United States.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Chicago (Ill.)--Emigration and immigration.

Chicago (Ill.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

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: Moving Beyond the Boundaries

Notes

References

Index

About the author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8135-6458-1

OCLC:

892911665