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Family Activism

Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship

By Amalia Pallares

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Publish Date

Nov 30, 2014

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Language

eng

Pages

196

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"--