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Family activism : immigrant struggles and the politics of noncitizenship /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pallares, Amalia, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014.
Colección:Latinidad: transnational cultures in the United States.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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 Activism examines the ways in which the family has become politically significant"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813564586
0813564581