Open Hand, Closed Fist: Practices of Undocumented Organizing in a Hostile State - Softcover

Abrams, Kathryn

 
9780520384422: Open Hand, Closed Fist: Practices of Undocumented Organizing in a Hostile State
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520384423 ISBN 13: 9780520384422
Verlag: University of California Press, 2022

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How does a group that lacks legal status organize its members to become effective political activists? In the early 2000s, Arizona's campaign of "attrition through enforcement" aimed to make life so miserable for undocumented immigrants that they would "self-deport." Undocumented activists resisted hostile legislation, registered thousands of new Latino voters, and joined a national movement to advance justice for immigrants. Drawing on five years of observation and interviews with activists in Phoenix, Arizona, Kathryn Abrams explains how the practices of storytelling, emotion cultures, and performative citizenship fueled this grassroots movement. Together these practices produced both the "open hand" (the affective bonds among participants) and the "closed fist" (the pragmatic strategies of resistance) that have allowed the movement to mobilize and sustain itself over time. 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kathryn Abrams is Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law at University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

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"This book will be one-stop shopping for understanding the immigrant rights movement in Arizona, one of the most important states of immigrant battles in the twenty-first century."—Paul Almeida, author of Social Movements: The Structure of Collective Mobilization

"A rich, qualitative empirical account of how deeply disenfranchised undocumented immigrants were inspired and empowered to form an 'unlikely' movement."—Lynette J. Chua, author of The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520384423
ISBN 13 
9780520384422
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
303
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