04298nam 2200757 450 991045991590332120210423215410.00-8135-6458-110.36019/9780813564586(CKB)3710000000250650(EBL)1809810(SSID)ssj0001351541(PQKBManifestationID)11967186(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001351541(PQKBWorkID)11301149(PQKB)11597418(MiAaPQ)EBC1809810(OCoLC)892911665(MdBmJHUP)muse37986(DE-B1597)529447(DE-B1597)9780813564586(Au-PeEL)EBL1809810(CaPaEBR)ebr10949299(CaONFJC)MIL338309(OCoLC)923709634(EXLCZ)99371000000025065020141015h20152015 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrFamily activism immigrant struggles and the politics of noncitizenship /Amalia PallaresNew Brunswick, New Jersey :Rutgers University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (200 p.)Latinidad : Transnational Cultures in the United StatesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8135-6457-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --List of Abbreviations --Introduction: Immigrant Rights Activism and the Family Paradox --1. From Reunification to Separation --2. A Tale of Sanctuary: Agency, Representativity, and Motherhood --3. Regarding Family: From Local to National Activism --4. Our Youth, Our Families: DREAM Act Politics and Neoliberal Nationalism --Conclusion: Moving Beyond the Boundaries --Notes --References --Index --About the authorDuring 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 Activism examines 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.Latinidad.Immigrant familiesUnited StatesFamiliesPolitical aspectsUnited StatesImmigrantsUnited StatesSocial conditionsImmigrant familiesIllinoisChicagoImmigrantsIllinoisIllinoisChicagoSocial conditionsUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationGovernment policyChicago (Ill.)Emigration and immigrationElectronic books.Immigrant familiesFamiliesPolitical aspectsImmigrantsSocial conditions.Immigrant familiesImmigrantsSocial conditions.325.73Pallares Amalia1965-1051337MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459915903321Family activism2481779UNINA