{"product_id":"family-activism-immigrant-struggles-and-the-politics-of-noncitizenship-hardback-9780813564579","title":"Family Activism; Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship (Hardback) 9780813564579","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFamily Activism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eImmigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAmalia Pallares (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813564579\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 November 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages, 13 photographs, 1 figure\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.426 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"In this compelling and highly original work, Pallares illustrates how Latino activists frame the family to contest immigrants' negative representation and to make counterclaims on behalf of unauthorized and mixed-status families.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Pat Zavella (author of I'm Neither Here Nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFamily Activism\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely, compelling, and significant contribution to understanding the desperation experienced by immigrant families, by women and children, and by undocumented youth raised in the United States because of the ever-present fear of deportation-a must read!\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Leo R. Chavez (author of Covering Immigration: Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eDuring 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. \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eDrawing 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,\u003ci\u003eFamily Activism\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBy 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.  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Immigrant Rights Activism and the Family Paradox\u003cp\u003e1          From Reunification to Separation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2          A Tale of Sanctuary: Agency, Representativity, and Motherhood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3          Regarding Family: From Local to National Activism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4          Our Youth, Our Families: DREAM Act Politics and Neoliberal Nationalism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion:Moving Beyond the Boundaries\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559342174488,"sku":"9780813564579","price":90.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/family-activism-immigrant-struggles-and-the-politics-of-noncitizenship-hardback-9780813564579","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}