Family Activism : Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pallares, Amalia, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Illegaler Einwanderer
Einwanderer
Soziale Situation
Immigrants > Social conditions.
Immigrant families.
Families > Political aspects.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Emigration and immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Hispanic American Studies.
Familles immigrantes > Illinois > Chicago.
Familles > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Familles immigrantes > États-Unis.
Immigrants > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions.
Immigrant families > Illinois > Chicago.
Immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
Families > Political aspects > United States.
Immigrant families > United States.
United States.
Illinois > Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) > Emigration and immigration.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
United States > Emigration and immigration.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (200 pages).
ISBN:9780813564586

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