Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship

AvRachel Ida Buff

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-08-17
Mått:153 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt:809 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Nation of Nations
Antal sidor:448
Förlag:New York University Press
ISBN:9780814799918

Utforska kategorier

Migration inom Samhälle och politik
Politiskt förtryck inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Rachel Ida Buff teaches History and Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Recensioner i media

An urgent collection of essays by both activists and scholars that puts legislative and judicial histories into dialogue with activists' struggles to bring about social justice for immigrant communities. Its ever-present focus on social justice connects the specificity of individual historical struggles to broader political aspirations. - Wendy Kozol,Oberlin College Impressive, provocative and smart. Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship is breathtaking in its timeliness and its broad scope. - Erika Lee,author of At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 In the end, the most compelling scholarship lays bare the paradoxes of the past. The best historians go beyond identifying such paradoxes to redress gaps in analysis that reshape the field, and in Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship, Buff skillfully does this. (The Journal of American History)

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Toward a Redefinition of Citizenship Rights Rachel Ida Buff Part I: Narratives of Refuge and Resistance 1. John S. W. Park2. Connie G. Oxford3. Scott Long, Jessica Stern, and Adam Francouer4. Eunice Hyunhye ChoPart II: Ambivalent Allies, Reluctant Rivals, and Disavowed Deviants 5. Dustin Tahmakera6. Robert Samuel Smith, Seneca Vaught, and Babacar M'Baye7. Isabel Guzman Molina8. Lisa Marie CachoPart III: Immigrant Acts 9. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Angelica Salas10. Christine Neumann-Ortiz11. Glenn OmatsuPart IV: Questions of Democracy 12. Victor C. Romero13. Rachel Ida Buff 14. Jeanne Petit15. Fred Tsao16. David ColePart V: Afterwords 17. Donald Pease18. Monisha Das GuptaAbout the Contributors Index