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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Buff, Rachel Ida,
• MitwirkendeR: Buff, Rachel Ida,; Cacho, Lisa Marie,; Cole, David,; Das Gupta, Monisha,; Francouer, Adam,; Green, Abner,; Guzman Molina, Isabel,; Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette,; Hyunhye Cho, Eunice,; Long, Scott,; Morgan, Patricia,; M’Baye, Babacar,; Neumann-Ortiz, Christine,; Omatsu, Glenn,; Oxford, Connie G.,; Park, John S. W.,; Pease, Donald,; Petit, Jeanne,; Romero, Victor C.,; Salas, Angelica,; Smith, Robert Samuel,; Stern, Jessica,; Tahmakera, Dustin,; Tsao, Fred,; Vaught, Seneca,; Williams, Zachery,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Nation of Nations ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward a Redefinition of Citizenship Rights -- Part I: Narratives of Refuge and Resistance -- 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 -- Part II: Ambivalent Allies, Reluctant Rivals, and Disavowed Deviants -- Introduction -- 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 -- Part III: Immigrant Acts -- Introduction -- 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 -- Part IV: Questions of Democracy -- Introduction -- 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 -- Part V: Afterwords -- Introduction -- 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