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Resistance and Abolition in the Borderlands
While there is a long history of state violence toward immigrants
in the United States, the essayists in this interdisciplinary
collection tackle head-on the impacts of the Trump administration.
This volume provides a well-argued look at the Trump era.
Insightful contributions delve into the impact of Donald Trump's
rhetoric and policies on migrants detained and returned, immigrant
children separated from their parents and placed in detention
centers, and migrant women subjected to sexual and reproductive
abuses, among other timely topics. The chapter authors document a
long list in what the book calls \"Trump's Reign of Terror.\"
Organized thematically, the book has four sections: The first
gathers histories about the Trump years' roots in a longer history
of anti-migration; the second includes essays on artistic and
activist responses on the border during the Trump years; the third
critiques the normalization of Trump's rhetoric and actions in
popular media and culture; and the fourth envisions the future.
Resistance and Abolition in the Borderlands is an
essential reader for those wishing to understand the extent of the
damage caused by the Trump era and its impact on Latinx people.
Contributors Arturo J. Aldama Rebecca Avalos Cynthia Bejarano Tria
Blu Wakpa Renata Carvalho Barreto Karma R. Chávez Leo R. Chavez
Jennifer Cullison Jasmin Lilian Diab Allison Glover Jamila Hammami
Alexandria Herrera Diana J. Lopez Sergio A. Macías Cinthya Martinez
Alexis N. Meza Roberto A. Mónico José Enrique Navarro Jessica Ordaz
Eliseo Ortiz Kiara Padilla Leslie Quintanilla J-M Rivera Heidy
Sarabia Tina Shull Nishant Upadhyay Maria Vargas Antonio Vásquez
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Obstruction of justice : how the deep state risked national security to protect the Democrats
A reporter from the Daily Caller investigates a 2016 cybersecurity breach that stole a huge trove of data from the Congressional computer network and the assertion that the crime was covered up by multiple government actors to protect Democrats.
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Resacralizing the Other at the US-Mexico Border
This book focuses on the themes of border violence; racial criminalization; competing hermeneutics of the sacred; and State-sponsored modes of desacralizing black- and brown-bodied people, all in the context of the US-Mexico borderlands. It provides a much-needed substantive response to the State’s use of sacralization to justify its acts of violence and offers new ways of theologizing the acceptance of the “other” in its place.
As a counter-hermeneutic of the sacred, the ultimate objective of the book is to offer an alternative epistemological, theoretical, and practical framework that resacralizes the other. Rejecting the State-driven agenda of othering border-crossers, it follows Gloria Anzaldúa’s healing move to the sacred Other and creates a new hermeneutic of the sacred at the borderlands; one that resacralizes those deemed by the State as the nonsacred human other anywhere in the world.
This is an important and topical book that addresses one of the key issues of our time. As such, it will be of keen interest to any scholar of religious studies and liberation theology as well as religion’s interaction with migration, race, and contemporary politics.
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Immigration nation : the American identity in the twenty-first century
This book invites readers to explore the history of immigration in the United States through the perspective of immigrants, citizens, and policymakers.
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The New Immigration Contestation: Social Movements and Local Immigration Policy Making in the United States, 2000–2011
Analyzing oppositional social movements in the context of municipal immigration ordinances, the authors examine whether the explanatory power of resource mobilization, political process, and strain theories of social movements' impact on policy outcomes differs when considering proactive as opposed to reactive movements. The adoption of pro-immigrant (proactive) ordinances was facilitated by the presence of immigrant community organizations and of sympathetic local political allies. The adoption of anti-immigrant (reactive) ordinances was influenced by structural social changes, such as rapid increases in the local Latino population, that were framed as threats. The study also finds that pro-immigrant protest events can influence policy in two ways, contributing both to the passage of pro-immigrant ordinances in the locality where protests occur and also inhibiting the passage of anti-immigrant ordinances in neighboring cities.
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Debating immigration in the age of terrorism, polarization, and Trump
This book offers a broad interdisciplinary approach to the changes in the U.S. immigration debate before and after 9/11. A nation’s reaction to foreigners has as much to do with sociology as it does with political science, economics and psychology. Without drawing on this knowledge, our understanding of the immigration debate remains mundane, partial, and imperfect. Therefore, our story accounts for multiple factors, including culture and politics, power, organizations, social psychological processes, and political change. Examining this relationship in the contemporary context requires a lengthy voyage across academic disciplines, a synthesis of seemingly contradictory assumptions, and a grasp of research traditions so vast and confusing that an accurate rendering may seem implausible. And yet, to tell the story of the immigration debate in the age of terrorism, polarization, and Trump in any other way is to tell it in part. The immigration debate in the United States has always been about openness. Two questions in particular—how open should the door be and what type of immigrant should walk through it—have characterized policy disputes for well over a century. In the current debate, expansionists want to see more legal immigrants in the U.S. and greater tolerance, if not respect, for immigrants. Restrictionists favor lower levels of immigration, stronger borders, and tighter law enforcement measures to stop the stream of ‘illegal’ migration and alleged crime. The aim of this book is to describe how these opposing views materialized in the news media, political rhetoric, and, ultimately, in policy. Much of our argument rests on the idea that history matters, that the dominant narrative about immigration is in constant flux, and that the ‘winner’ of the immigration debate is determined by a vector of contextual elements: the joint impact of current events, enduring traditions, and political-economic forces. Our approach to the immigration debate avoids deterministic claims and grand-scale projections. Although we argue with conviction that a climate of fear played an important role in shaping the debate, the fear itself and its effects on social attitudes and public policy were neither inevitable nor necessarily long lasting.
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Integration nation : immigrants, refugees, and America at its best
\"Takes readers on a ... cross-country journey, introducing [them] to the people challenging America's xenophobic impulses by welcoming immigrants and collaborating with the foreign-born as they become integral members of their new communities\"-- Provided by publisher.
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US Immigration in the Twenty-First Century
Immigration in the Twenty-First Century is a comprehensive examination of the enduring issues surrounding immigration and immigrants in the United States. The book begins with a look at the history of immigration policy, followed by an examination of the legislative and legal debates waged over immigration and settlement policies today, and concludes with a consideration of the continuing challenges of achieving immigration reform in the United States. The authors also discuss the issues facing US immigrants, from their reception within the native population to the relationship between minorities and immigrants.
Immigration and immigration policy continues to be a hot topic on the campaign trail, and in all branches of federal and state government. Immigration in the Twenty-First Century provides students with the tools and context they need to understand these complex issues.
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