Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship

by Buff, Rachel Ida

• ISBN13: 9780814799925
• ISBN10: 0814799922
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-17
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

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. Citizenshipbrings 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	p. ix
Introduction: Toward a Redefinition of Citizenship Rights	p. 1
Narratives of Refuge and Resistance	p. 23
On Being Here and Not Here: Noncitizen Status in American Immigration Law	p. 26
Acts of Resistance in Asylum Seekers' Persecution Narratives	p. 40
Family, Unvalued: Sex and Security: A Short History of Exclusions	p. 55
Primary Source: Boutilier v. Immigration Service, 1967	p. 79
Beyond the Day without an Immigrant: Immigrant Communities Building a Sustainable Movement	p. 94
Primary Source: National Network on Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Statements of Support, Spring 2006	p. 122
Groups Endorsing the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 2006	p. 134
Ambivalent Allies, Reluctant Rivals, and Disavowed Deviants	p. 139
"Pale Face 'Fraid You Crowd Him Out": Racializing "Indians" and "Indianizing" Chinese Immigrants	p. 142
Primary Source: People v. Hall, 1854	p. 156
A History of Black Immigration into the United States through the Lens of the African American Civil and Human Rights Struggle	p. 159
Rescuing Elian: Gender and Race in Stories of Children's Migration	p. 179
The Rights of Respectability: Ambivalent Allies, Reluctant Rivals, and Disavowed Deviants	p. 190
Immigrant Acts	p. 207
What Explains the Immigrant Rights Marches of 2006? Xenophobia and Organizing with Democracy Technology	p. 209
Primary Source: Shame of a Nation: A Documented Story of Polie-State Terror against Mexican-Americans in the USA, 1954	p. 226
Si, Se Puede! Spaces for Immigrant Organizing	p. 246
Immigrant Workers Take the Lead: A Militant Humility Transforms L.A. Koreatown	p. 266
Questions of Democracy	p. 283
Who Should Manage Immigration-Congress or the States? An Introduction to Constitutional Immigration Law	p. 286
The Undergraduate Railroad: Undocumented Immigrant Students and Public Universities	p. 301
Our Immigrant Coreligionists: The National Catholic Welfare Conference as an Advocate for Immigrants in the 1920s	p. 315
Building Coalitions for Immigrant Power	p. 329
Primary Source: Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 2006	p. 343
Their Liberties, Our Security	p. 347
Primary Source: The Deportation Terror: A Weapon to Gag America, 1950	p. 363
Afterwords	p. 383
The Mexican-American War and Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Foundational Borderline Fantasy	p. 385
Rights in a Transnational Era	p. 402
About the Contributors	p. 425
Index	p. 433
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