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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward a Redefinition of Citizenship Rights
Part I: Narratives of Refuge and Resistance
Introduction
1. On Being Here and Not Here: Noncitizen Status in American Immigration Law
2. Acts of Resistance in Asylum Seekers' Persecution Narratives
3. Family, Unvalued: Sex and Security: A Short History of Exclusions
Primary Source: Boutilier v. Immigration Service, 1967
4. Beyond the Day without an Immigrant: Immigrant Communities Building a Sustainable Movement
Primary Source: National Network on Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Statements of Support, Spring 2006
Appendix: Groups Endorsing the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 2006
Part II: Ambivalent Allies, Reluctant Rivals, and Disavowed Deviants
Introduction
5. "Pale Face 'Fraid You Crowd Him Out": Racializing "Indians" and "Indianizing" Chinese Immigrants
Primary Source: People v. Hall, 1854
6. A History of Black Immigration into the United States through the Lens of the African American Civil and Human Rights Struggle
7. Rescuing Elián: Gender and Race in Stories of Children's Migration
8. The Rights of Respectability: Ambivalent Allies, Reluctant Rivals, and Disavowed Deviants
Part III: Immigrant Acts
Introduction
9. What Explains the Immigrant Rights Marches of 2006? Xenophobia and Organizing with Democracy Technology
Primary Source: Shame of a Nation: A Documented Story of Police-State Terror against Mexican-Americans in the USA, 1954 Patricia Morgan
10. ¡Sí, Se Puede! Spaces for Immigrant Organizing
11. Immigrant Workers Take the Lead: A Militant Humility Transforms L.A. Koreatown
Part IV: Questions of Democracy
Introduction
12. Who Should Manage Immigration - Congress or the States? An Introduction to Constitutional Immigration Law
13. The Undergraduate Railroad: Undocumented Immigrant Students and Public Universities
14. Our Immigrant Coreligionists: The National Catholic Welfare Conference as an Advocate for Immigrants in the 1920s
15. Building Coalitions for Immigrant Power
Primary Source: Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 2006
16. Their Liberties, Our Security
Primary Source: The Deportation Terror: A Weapon to Gag America, 1950
Part V: Afterwords
Introduction
17. The Mexican-American War and Whitman's "Song of Myself ": A Foundational Borderline Fantasy
18. Rights in a Transnational Era
About the Contributors
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward a Redefinition of Citizenship Rights
Part I: Narratives of Refuge and Resistance
Introduction
1. On Being Here and Not Here: Noncitizen Status in American Immigration Law
2. Acts of Resistance in Asylum Seekers' Persecution Narratives
3. Family, Unvalued: Sex and Security: A Short History of Exclusions
Primary Source: Boutilier v. Immigration Service, 1967
4. Beyond the Day without an Immigrant: Immigrant Communities Building a Sustainable Movement
Primary Source: National Network on Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Statements of Support, Spring 2006
Appendix: Groups Endorsing the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 2006
Part II: Ambivalent Allies, Reluctant Rivals, and Disavowed Deviants
Introduction
5. "Pale Face 'Fraid You Crowd Him Out": Racializing "Indians" and "Indianizing" Chinese Immigrants
Primary Source: People v. Hall, 1854
6. A History of Black Immigration into the United States through the Lens of the African American Civil and Human Rights Struggle
7. Rescuing Elián: Gender and Race in Stories of Children's Migration
8. The Rights of Respectability: Ambivalent Allies, Reluctant Rivals, and Disavowed Deviants
Part III: Immigrant Acts
Introduction
9. What Explains the Immigrant Rights Marches of 2006? Xenophobia and Organizing with Democracy Technology
Primary Source: Shame of a Nation: A Documented Story of Police-State Terror against Mexican-Americans in the USA, 1954 Patricia Morgan
10. ¡Sí, Se Puede! Spaces for Immigrant Organizing
11. Immigrant Workers Take the Lead: A Militant Humility Transforms L.A. Koreatown
Part IV: Questions of Democracy
Introduction
12. Who Should Manage Immigration - Congress or the States? An Introduction to Constitutional Immigration Law
13. The Undergraduate Railroad: Undocumented Immigrant Students and Public Universities
14. Our Immigrant Coreligionists: The National Catholic Welfare Conference as an Advocate for Immigrants in the 1920s
15. Building Coalitions for Immigrant Power
Primary Source: Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 2006
16. Their Liberties, Our Security
Primary Source: The Deportation Terror: A Weapon to Gag America, 1950
Part V: Afterwords
Introduction
17. The Mexican-American War and Whitman's "Song of Myself ": A Foundational Borderline Fantasy
18. Rights in a Transnational Era
About the Contributors
Index