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Family Activism
2014,2015
Overview
During the past ten years, legal and political changes in the United States have dramatically altered the legalization process for millions of undocumented immigrants and their families. Faced with fewer legalization options, immigrants without legal status and their supporters have organized around the concept of the family as a political subject-a political subject with its rights violated by immigration laws.
Drawing upon the idea of the \"impossible activism\" of undocumented immigrants, Amalia Pallares argues that those without legal status defy this \"impossible\" context by relying on the politicization of the family to challenge justice within contemporary immigration law. The culmination of a seven-year-long ethnography of undocumented immigrants and their families in Chicago, as well as national immigrant politics,Family Activismexamines the three ways in which the family has become politically significant: as a political subject, as a frame for immigrant rights activism, and as a symbol of racial subordination and resistance.
By analyzing grassroots campaigns, churches and interfaith coalitions, immigrant rights movements, and immigration legislation, Pallares challenges the traditional familial idea, ultimately reframing the family as a site of political struggle and as a basis for mobilization in immigrant communities.
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Subject
/ Chicago (Ill.) -- Emigration and immigration
/ Families
/ Families -- Political aspects -- United States
/ family
/ Illinois
/ Immigrant families -- Illinois -- Chicago
/ Immigrant families -- United States
/ Immigrants -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions
/ Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions
/ politics
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies
/ United States -- Emigration and immigration
/ United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
ISBN
9780813564586, 0813564581, 9780813564579, 0813564573, 0813564565, 9780813564562
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