Authors: Rachel Buff
ISBN-13: 9780814799925, ISBN-10: 0814799922
Format: Paperback
Publisher: New York University Press
Date Published: August 2008
Edition: New Edition
Rachel Ida Buff teaches History and Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Book Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Toward a Redefinition of Citizenship Rights Rachel Ida Buff 1
Narratives of Refuge and Resistance 23
On Being Here and Not Here: Noncitizen Status in American Immigration Law John S. W. Park 26
Acts of Resistance in Asylum Seekers' Persecution Narratives Connie G. Oxford 40
Family, Unvalued: Sex and Security: A Short History of Exclusions Scott Long Jessica Stern Adam Francouer 55
Primary Source: Boutilier v. Immigration Service, 1967 79
Beyond the Day without an Immigrant: Immigrant Communities Building a Sustainable Movement Eunice Hyunhye Cho 94
Primary Source: National Network on Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Statements of Support, Spring 2006 122
Groups Endorsing the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 2006 134
Ambivalent Allies, Reluctant Rivals, and Disavowed Deviants 139
"Pale Face 'Fraid You Crowd Him Out": Racializing "Indians" and "Indianizing" Chinese Immigrants Dustin Tahmakera 142
Primary Source: People v. Hall, 1854 156
A History of Black Immigration into the United States through the Lens of the African American Civil and Human Rights Struggle Zachery Williams Robert Samuel Smith Seneca Vaught Babacar M'Baye 159
Rescuing Elian: Gender and Race in Stories of Children's Migration Isabel Guzman Molina 179
The Rights of Respectability: Ambivalent Allies, Reluctant Rivals, and Disavowed Deviants Lisa Marie Cacho 190
Immigrant Acts 207
What Explains the Immigrant Rights Marches of 2006? Xenophobia and Organizing with Democracy Technology Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Angelica Salas 209
Primary Source: Shame of a Nation: A Documented Story of Polie-State Terror against Mexican-Americans in the USA, 1954 Patricia Morgan 226
Si, Se Puede! Spaces for Immigrant Organizing Christine Neumann-Ortiz 246
Immigrant Workers Take the Lead: A Militant Humility Transforms L.A. Koreatown Glenn Omatsu 266
Questions of Democracy 283
Who Should Manage Immigration-Congress or the States? An Introduction to Constitutional Immigration Law Victor C. Romero 286
The Undergraduate Railroad: Undocumented Immigrant Students and Public Universities Rachel Ida Buff 301
Our Immigrant Coreligionists: The National Catholic Welfare Conference as an Advocate for Immigrants in the 1920s Jeanne Petit 315
Building Coalitions for Immigrant Power Fred Tsao 329
Primary Source: Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 2006 343
Their Liberties, Our Security David Cole 347
Primary Source: The Deportation Terror: A Weapon to Gag America, 1950 Abner Green 363
Afterwords 383
The Mexican-American War and Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Foundational Borderline Fantasy Donald Pease 385
Rights in a Transnational Era Monisha Das Gupta 402
About the Contributors 425
Index 433
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