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During the early 2010s, undocumented youth activists were leading the charge to gain congressional support for the federal Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, which sought to provide a pathway to citizenship for eligible undocumented youth in the United States. Led primarily by Latino college students and graduates, this movement became very attentive to and inclusive of the concerns of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer members. Drawing on semi-structured interviews of Latino lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer undocumented youth and other documentary evidence, this article demonstrates how activists can deploy intersectionality as a collective action frame that serves multiple purposes. Specifically, intersectionality can function as: (1) a diagnostic frame to help activists make sense of their own multiply-marginalized identities; (2) a motivational frame to inspire action; and (3) a prognostic frame that guides how activists build inclusive organizations and bridge social movements. We show how this frame guided the ways in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer and other undocumented activists interpreted their own life experiences, prompted them to build inclusive organizations, and broadened the scope of their movement. We conclude by arguing that activists have the potential to adopt intersectionality as a master frame that strengthens ties among various movements mobilizing marginalized populations.

Emotion recognition using electroencephalography (EEG) is becoming an interesting topic among researchers. It has made a remarkable entry in the domain of biomedical, smart environment, brain-computer interface (BCI), communication, security, and safe driving. In the past decade, several studies have been published that viewed emotion recognition tasks in a variety of manners. Multiple algorithms have been developed to accurately capture the EEG signal and identify the emotions from such EEG signals. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) has changed the landscape of every application including emotion recognition. Two categories of AI-based algorithms such as machine learning and deep learning algorithms are becoming popular in the emotion recognition domain. This narrative review is an attempt to provide deep insight into the AI-based techniques, their role in EEG-based emotion recognition, and their potential future possibilities in accurate emotion identification. Furthermore, this review also provides an overview of the several important topics in emotion recognition such as emotion paradigms, EEG and its processing, and the public databases.

Emotions are closely related to human behavior, family, and society. Changes in emotions can cause differences in electroencephalography (EEG) signals, which show different emotional states and are not easy to disguise. EEG-based emotion recognition has been widely used in human-computer interaction, medical diagnosis, military, and other fields. In this paper, we describe the common steps of an emotion recognition algorithm based on EEG from data acquisition, preprocessing, feature extraction, feature selection to classifier. Then, we review the existing EEG-based emotional recognition methods, as well as assess their classification effect. This paper will help researchers quickly understand the basic theory of emotion recognition and provide references for the future development of EEG. Moreover, emotion is an important representation of safety psychology.

EEG-based emotion recognition is not only an important branch in the field of affective computing, but is also an indispensable task for harmonious human–computer interaction. Recently, many deep learning emotion recognition algorithms have achieved good results, but most of them have been based on convolutional and recurrent neural networks, resulting in complex model design, poor modeling of long-distance dependency, and the inability to parallelize computations. Here, we proposed a novel bi-hemispheric asymmetric attention network (Bi-AAN) combining a transformer structure with the asymmetric property of the brain’s emotional response. In this way, we modeled the difference of bi-hemispheric attention, and mined the long-term dependency between EEG sequences, which exacts more discriminative emotional representations. First, the differential entropy (DE) features of each frequency band were calculated using the DE-embedding block, and the spatial information between the electrode positions was extracted using positional encoding. Then, a bi-headed attention mechanism was employed to capture the intra-attention of frequency bands in each hemisphere and the attentional differences between the bi-hemispheric frequency bands. After carring out experiments both in DEAP and DREAMER datasets, we found that the proposed Bi-AAN achieved superior recognition performance as compared to state-of-the-art EEG emotion recognition methods.

This article analyzes Imbolo Mbue’s debut novel, Behold the Dreamers (2017), in the context of the myth of the American Dream, i.e. the belief that in the United States of America success is possible for anyone regardless of their heritage or social class. The article analyzes the myth of the American Dream through a hybrid methodology of close reading and narrative analysis, sociological and economic data interpretation, and selected frameworks in cultural studies. The novel in tandem with the presented data suggest that although many believe they “will grow to fullest development” (Adams 1931, 333) in the US, the American Dream is “symbolic rather than substantive” (Wolak and Peterson 2020, 969). Faced with insurmountable difficulties, the protagonists of Behold the Dreamers find that this Dream is indeed a myth that can only be realized by mirroring the exploitation they themselves have endured and by leaving the US. At the end of the novel, the Jongas leave America, but America, with its Dream,has certainly not left them.

Using the case of the undocumented immigrant youth movement, we examine how successful political mobilization depends upon the availability and adaptation of symbolically powerful cultural schemas. Analyses of 33 in-depth, semi-structured interviews and participant observations suggest that the existence of a cultural schema of ‘coming out,’ and the undocumented immigrant youth movement’s innovative use of it, allowed movement leaders to address potential adherents’ fears of publically revealing their immigration status and promote social movement participation. In adapting this cultural schema to the needs of this new movement context, national leaders increased the resonance of ‘coming out’ by pairing it with the schema of immigrants living in ‘the shadows.’ California leaders practiced additional cultural innovation by using ‘coming out’ to refer specifically to public and risky forms of disclosure and using other language to identify safer or more private forms of disclosure. We show how talk of coming out is shaped by positionality, so that movement leaders and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) individuals are more likely than others to speak of coming out as undocumented. This extends previous research on the importance of culture for facilitating successful political mobilization.

How Latinx artists around the US adopted the medium of printmaking to reclaim the lands of the Americas. Printmakers have conspired, historically, to illustrate the maps created by European colonizers that were used to chart and claim their expanding territories. Over the last three decades, Latinx artists and print studios have reclaimed this printed art form for their own spatial discourse. This book examines the limited editions produced at four art studios around the US that span everything from sly critiques of Manifest Destiny to printed portraits of Dreamers in Texas. Reclaiming the Americas is the visual history of Latinx printmaking in the US. Tatiana Reinoza employs a pan-ethnic comparative model for this interdisciplinary study of graphic art, drawing on art history, Latinx studies, and geography in her discussions. The book contests printmaking's historical complicity in the logics of colonization and restores the art form and the lands it once illustrated to the Indigenous, migrant, mestiza/o, and Afro-descendant people of the Americas.

Undocumented young adults have emerged as a coherent political group, forging a large-scale social movement and helping push forward nineteen state-level tuition equity laws and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in 2012. Yet, DACA recipients status became endangered when President Trump rescinded DACA in September 2017, necessitating even more innovative strategies for contesting their exclusion. Drawing from research conducted in Maryland since 2016, I chronicle DACA recipients trajectories of political engagement. Though some have participated consistently in public forms of collective action, many never have or have declined in participation due to political apathy, the intense need to protect their identities, and very-real fears about being exposed or deported. Yet, these young adults have cultivated complementary forms of everyday activism, operating outside traditional modalities and spaces of political engagement through acts of resistance carried out in everyday life. I contend that against the backdrop of the repressive state in the Trump era, the everyday activism of DACA recipients complements more normative and overt forms of collective action. Everyday activism raises interesting questions about the nature of activism itself, including the extent to which it must be collective, organized, and public, and its place in social justice movements more broadly.

Hart–SLSA Prize for Early Career Academics, Socio-Legal Studies Association Ways of Belonging examines the experiences of undocumented young people who are excluded from K–12 schools in Canada and are rendered invisible to the education system. Canadian law doesn't mention the existence of undocumented children, and thus their access to education rests on discretionary practices and is often denied altogether. This book brings the stories of undocumented young people vividly alive, putting them into conversation with the perspectives of the different actors in schools and courts who fail to include these young people. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Francesca Meloni shows how ambivalence shapes the lives of young people who are caught between the desire to belong and the impossibility of fully belonging. Meloni pays close attention to these young people's struggles and hopes, showing us what it means to belong and to endure in contexts of social exclusion. Ways of Belonging reveals the opacities and failures of a system that excludes children from education and puts their lives in invisibility mode. An interview with the author [https://www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-views/book-interviews/items/interview-with-francesca-meloni-about-her-book-ways-of-belonging-undocumented-youth-in-the-shadow-of-illegality.html] (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-views/book-interviews/items/interview-with-francesca-meloni-about-her-book-ways-of-belonging-undocumented-youth-in-the-shadow-of-illegality.html)