Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship / / Rachel Ida Buff.
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...
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Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
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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