Family Activism
Subtitle: Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Nov 30, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780813564579
Description: "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"--
Notes: Source title: Family Activism: Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship (Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the)