All of us or none : migrant organizing in an era of deportation and dispossession / Monisha Das Gupta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Das Gupta, Monisha, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Political activity--United States--History.

Immigrants.

Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Refugees.

Deportation--Government policy--United States.

Deportation.

Detention of persons--United States.

Detention of persons.

Noncitizens--United States.

Noncitizens.

Emigration and immigration law--Social aspects--United States.

Emigration and immigration law.

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

United States.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Migrant organizing in an era of deportation and dispossession

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"All of Us or None examines the on-the-ground struggles of anti-deportation migrant justice groups, arguing that the deportation and criminalization of immigrants serves as a technology of US settler carceral power. These groups--composed of and advocating for 'criminal aliens,' or migrants with criminal records as well as their families and allies--are fighting not for reform or a simple path to legalization, but for the transformation of a settler colonial immigration infrastructure that increasingly surveils, detains, and deports migrants. Through fieldwork as a participant-observer with four groups--Families For Freedom in New York City, Khmer Girls in Action in Long Beach, a Los Angeles-based short-term coalition Tod@s Somos Arizona, and the Los Angeles area Immigrant Youth Coalition--Monisha Das Gupta reveals how these groups build expansive political coalitions and fight for rights without appealing to inclusion in the settler state. Bridging studies of settler colonialism, migration, and abolition, Das Gupta highlights the transformative promise offered by dissident migrant-led politics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Deportation as settler carcerality

"All of us or none"

"It is our moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws"

"Don't deport our daddies"

"Deportation = genocide"

Not DREAMing

Jailbreak.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-238) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Das Gupta, Monisha, 1961- All of us or none.

ISBN:

9781478030874

1478030879

9781478026655

1478026650

OCLC:

1416891935