Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship / Rachel Ida Buff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buff, Rachel Ida, Author.

Contributor:

Buff, Rachel, 1961-

Series:

Nation of newcomers.

Nation of Nations ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social integration--Government policy--United States--History.

Social integration.

Immigrants--Government policy--United States--History.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--Civil rights--United States--History.

Constitutional law--United States.

Constitutional law.

Emigration and immigration law--United States--History.

Emigration and immigration law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Punctuated by marches across the United States in the spring of 2006, immigrant rights has reemerged as a significant and highly visible political issue. Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of U.S. Citizenship brings prominent activists and scholars together to examine the emergence and significance of the contemporary immigrant rights movement. Contributors place the contemporary immigrant rights movement in historical and comparative contexts by looking at the ways immigrants and their allies have staked claims to rights in the past, and by examining movements based in different communities around the United States. Scholars explain the evolution of immigration policy, and analyze current conflicts around issues of immigrant rights; activists engaged in the current movement document the ways in which coalitions have been built among immigrants from different nations, and between immigrant and native born peoples. The essays examine the ways in which questions of immigrant rights engage broader issues of identity, including gender, race, and sexuality.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Toward a Redefinition of Citizenship Rights

Introduction

1. On Being Here and Not Here: Noncitizen Status in American Immigration Law

2. Acts of Resistance in Asylum Seekers’ Persecution Narratives

3. Family, Unvalued: Sex and Security: A Short History of Exclusions

Primary Source: Boutilier v. Immigration Service, 1967

4. Beyond the Day without an Immigrant: Immigrant Communities Building a Sustainable Movement

Primary Source: National Network on Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Statements of Support, Spring 2006

Appendix: Groups Endorsing the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 2006

5. “Pale Face ’Fraid You Crowd Him Out”: Racializing “Indians” and “Indianizing” Chinese Immigrants

Primary Source: People v. Hall, 1854

6. A History of Black Immigration into the United States through the Lens of the African American Civil and Human Rights Struggle

7. Rescuing Elián: Gender and Race in Stories of Children’s Migration

8. The Rights of Respectability: Ambivalent Allies, Reluctant Rivals, and Disavowed Deviants

9. What Explains the Immigrant Rights Marches of 2006? Xenophobia and Organizing with Democracy Technology

Primary Source: Shame of a Nation: A Documented Story of Police-State Terror against Mexican-Americans in the USA, 1954 Patricia Morgan

10. ¡Sí, Se Puede! Spaces for Immigrant Organizing

11. Immigrant Workers Take the Lead: A Militant Humility Transforms L.A. Koreatown

12. Who Should Manage Immigration — Congress or the States? An Introduction to Constitutional Immigration Law

13. The Undergraduate Railroad: Undocumented Immigrant Students and Public Universities

14. Our Immigrant Coreligionists: The National Catholic Welfare Conference as an Advocate for Immigrants in the 1920s

15. Building Coalitions for Immigrant Power

Primary Source: Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 2006

16. Their Liberties, Our Security

Primary Source: The Deportation Terror: A Weapon to Gag America, 1950

17. The Mexican-American War and Whitman’s “Song of Myself ”: A Foundational Borderline Fantasy

18. Rights in a Transnational Era

About the Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780814789742

0814789749

9780814739358

0814739350

OCLC:

782877961