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and#147;Through the excellent and noteworthy pieces of scholarship here,
Rallying for Immigrant Rights vividly captures the dynamics of the 2006 immigration protests. This volume heralds an exciting shift in the study of political participation and raises timely questions about protest, immigration, and U.S. politics.and#8221; and#151;Kenneth T. Andrews, author of
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacyand#147;Rallying for Immigrant Rights challenges the existing theories in political behavior and social movement writings. This is a timely and excellent volume, and it should be required reading for anyone interested in political activism.and#8221; and#151;Lisa Garcand#237;a Bedolla, Chair, Center for Latino Policy Research, UC Berkeley
and#147;The essays in Rallying for Immigrant Rights offer an enlightening perspective on the 2006 protests and what they mean for the future of immigration politics in the U.S. This impressively orginal volume will be a standard reference for years to come.and#8221; and#151;Karthick Ramakrishnan, Associate Professor of Political Science, UC Riverside
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and#8220;Illuminating. . . . An important contribution to the study of the struggle for rights by migrant movements in Europe.and#8221;
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and#8220;This important book makes a significant contribution to the growing fields of immigration, ethnic relations, and policy studies.and#8221;
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and#8220;[The authors] make a compelling case. . . . Thought-provoking.and#8221;
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and#8220;The and#8216;fight for inclusion in . . . could not have been waged so effectively without prior grassroots work by . . . unions, the religious community, and immigrant rights organizations.and#8221;
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and#8220;Highly recommended.and#8221;
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This book explores the unintended consequences of compassion in the world of immigration politics. Miriam Ticktin focuses on France and its humanitarian immigration practices to argue that a politics based on care and protection can lead the state to view issues of immigration and asylum through a medical lens. Examining two and#147;regimes of careand#8221;and#151;humanitarianism and the movement to stop violence against womenand#151;Ticktin asks what it means to permit the sick and sexually violated to cross borders while the impoverished cannot? She demonstrates how in an inhospitable immigration climate, unusual pathologies can become the means to residency papers, making conditions like HIV, cancer, and select experiences of sexual violence into distinct advantages for would-be migrants. Ticktinand#8217;s analysis also indicts the inequalities forged by global capitalism that drive people to migrate, and the state practices that criminalize the majority of undocumented migrants at the expense of care for the exceptional few.
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Casualties of Care is a well crafted, intelligent and carefully argued study of the social and policy effects of a seemingly benevolent set of 'humanitarian practices' used in the French immigration and asylum processes. One of the leading anthropologists of humanitarianism, Miriam Ticktin is well placed to write this definitive study, having undertaken nearly ten years of thorough ethnographic research in France. Her research findings draw from ethnographic interviews and participant observation as well as broader, more structural data on the movement of foreign labor within the French economy." --Richard Ashby Wilson, Gladstein Chair of Human Rights, University of Connecticut
"Ticktin cuts to the heart of contemporary concerns, speaking provocatively and incisively about humanitarianism and security through the topic of immigration." --Peter Redfield, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Dreams and Nightmares takes a critical look at the challenges and dilemmas of immigration policy and practice in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform. The experiences of children and youth provide a prism through which the interwoven dynamics and consequences of immigration policy become apparent. Using a unique sociolegal perspective, authors Zatz and Rodriguez examine the mechanisms by which immigration policies and practices mitigate or exacerbate harm to vulnerable youth. They pay particular attention to prosecutorial discretion, assessing its potential and limitations for resolving issues involving parental detention and deportation, unaccompanied minors, and Dreamers who came to the United States as young children. The book demonstrates how these policies and practices offer a means of prioritizing immigration enforcement in ways that alleviate harm to children, and why they remain controversial and vulnerable to political challenges.
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From Alaska to Florida, millions of immigrants and their supporters took to the streets across the United States to rally for immigrant rights in the spring of 2006. The scope and size of their protests, rallies, and boycotts made these the most significant events of political activism in the United States since the 1960s. This accessibly written volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of this historic moment. Perfect for students and general readers, its essays, written by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and grassroots organizers, trace the evolution and legacy of the 2006 protest movement in engaging, theoretically informed discussions. The contributors cover topics including unions, churches, the media, immigrant organizations, and immigrant politics. Today, one in eight U.S. residents was born outside the country, but for many, lack of citizenship makes political voice through the ballot box impossible. This book helps us better understand how immigrants are making their voices heard in other ways.
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When restrictive immigration laws were introduced in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, they involved new requirements for photographing and documenting immigrants--regulations for visually inspecting race and health. This work is the first to take a comprehensive look at the history of immigration policy in the United States through the prism of visual culture. Including many previously unpublished images, and taking a new look at Lewis Hine's photographs, Anna Pegler-Gordon considers the role and uses of visual documentation at Angel Island for Chinese immigrants, at Ellis Island for European immigrants, and on the U.S.-Mexico border. Including fascinating close visual analysis and detailed histories of immigrants in addition to the perspectives of officials, this richly illustrated book traces how visual regulations became central in the early development of U.S. immigration policy and in the introduction of racial immigration restrictions. In so doing, it provides the historical context for understanding more recent developments in immigration policy and, at the same time, sheds new light on the cultural history of American photography.
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"This beautifully written and illustrated study is a significant intervention in the histories of photography and of immigration. It excitingly shows how the state's efforts to picture and control migrants moved from one group of subjects to the next and how technological advances called forth new forms of immigrant resistance."and#151;David Roediger, author of
How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama PhenomenonAbout the Author
Kim Voss is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is coauthor, with Rick Fantasia, of Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement (UC Press), coauthor of Inequality by Design, and author of The Making of American Exceptionalism. Irene Bloemraad is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada (UC Press).
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
What Happened? The Historically Unprecedented Mobilizations of Spring 2006
1. The Protests of 2006: What Were They, How Do We Understand Them, Where Do We Go?
Irene Bloemraad, Kim Voss, and Taeku Lee
2. Groundswell Meets Groundwork: Building on the Mobilizations to Empower Immigrant Communities
Ted Wang and Robert C. Winn
Mobilization Dynamics: Why and How the Protests Happened
3. Mobilization en Espaand#241;ol: Spanish-Language Radio and the Activation of Political Identities
Ricardo Ramand#237;rez
4. Building the Labor-Clergy-Immigrant Alliance
Randy Shaw
5. From Prayer to Protest: The Immigrant Rights Movement and the Catholic Church
Luisa Heredia
6. Mobilizing Marchers in the Mile-High City: The Role of Community-Based Organizations
Lisa M. Martinez
7. Migrant Civic Engagement
Jonathan Fox and Xand#243;chitl Bada
8. Regarding Family: New Actors in the Chicago Protests
Amalia Pallares and Nilda Flores-Gonzand#225;lez
9. Itand#8217;s a Family Affair: Intergenerational Mobilization in the Spring 2006 Protests
Irene Bloemraad and Christine Trost
Looking Forward: Whither American Politics and Immigrant Rights Mobilization?
10. LAand#8217;s Past, Americaand#8217;s Future? The 2006 Immigrant Rights Protests and Their Antecedents
Ruth Milkman
11. Drawing New Lines in the Sand: Evaluating the Failure of Immigration Reforms from 2006 to the Beginning of the Obama Administration
Louis DeSipio
12. The Efficacy and Alienation of Juan Q. Public: The Immigration Marches and Latino Orientations toward American Political Institutions
Francisco I. Pedraza, Gary M. Segura, and Shaun Bowler
13. Out of the Shadows, into the Light: Questions Raised by the Spring of 2006
Roberto Suro
References
Contributors
Index