Immigrants Under Threat : Risk and Resistance in Deportation Nation /

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A portrait of two Mexican immigrant communities confronting threats of deportation, detention, and dispossession Everyday life as an immigrant in a deportation nation is fraught with risk, but everywhere immigrants confront repression and dispossession, they also manifest resistance in ways big and...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Prieto, Greg (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Noncitizens.
Noncitizens > Government policy.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Immigrants clandestins.
Immigration clandestine > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Mexicains > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Undocumented Immigrants
Illegal immigration > Government policy > United States.
Mexicans > Government policy > United States.
Noncitizens > Government policy > United States.
United States.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Ghost in the deportation machine: a brief history of immigrant inclusion through exclusion
  • "The sense of law is lost": car impoundments and the racial naturalization of Mexican immigrants
  • The shell: the inward turn in the everyday lives of Mexican immigrants
  • Instrumental activists: a pragmatic immigrant politics of making history to make life
  • Opportunity and threat: comparing collaborative and confrontational tactics in local immigrant rights struggles
  • Conclusion: American dream, American hypocrisy.

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