Immigrant rights in the shadows of citizenship
By: Edited by Rachel Ida Buff.
Contributors: Buff, Rachel, 1961-
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780814799918; 9780814799925
Subjects: Emigration and immigration law -- United States -- History; Constitutional law -- United States; Immigrants -- Civil rights -- United States -- History; Immigrants -- Government policy -- United States -- History; Social integration -- Government policy -- United States -- History
Description: "[Book title] brings 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."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.