Demonstrates how efforts to enforce national borders trigger countless
Table of Contents
Series Editors' Preface ix
Acknowledgments x
1 Sparks of Resistance 1
2 Rethinking Movements from the Bottom Up 13
Part I The Birth of Immigrant Rights Activism 37
3 Making Space for Immigrant Rights Activism in Los Angeles 39
4 Radical Entanglements in Paris 54
5 Placing Protest in Amsterdam 71
Part II Urban Landscapes of Control and Contention 89
6 The Laissez]Faire State: Re]politicizing Immigrants in Los Angeles 91
7 The Uneven Reach of the State: The Partial Pacification of Paris 116
8 The Cooptative State: The Pacification of Contentious Immigrant Politics in Amsterdam 138
Part III New Geographies of Immigrant Rights Movements 157
9 Los Angeles as a Center of the National Immigrant Rights Movement 161
10 Paris as Head of Splintering Resistances 188
11 Divergent Geographies of Immigrant Rights Contention in the Netherlands 209
12 Conclusion: Sparks into Wildfires 227
Notes 239
References 245
Index 262
