Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"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." -- Pat Zavella * author of I'm Neither Here Nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty *
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Family Activism 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!" -- Leo R. Chavez * author of Covering Immigration: Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation *
Table of ContentsPreface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Immigrant Rights Activism and the Family Paradox
1 From Reunification to Separation
2 A Tale of Sanctuary: Agency, Representativity, and Motherhood
3 Regarding Family: From Local to National Activism
4 Our Youth, Our Families: DREAM Act Politics and Neoliberal Nationalism
Conclusion:Moving Beyond the Boundaries
Notes
References
Index
