@article{694136,
      recid = {694136},
      author = {Nicholls, Walter.},
      title = {The DREAMers how the undocumented youth movement  transformed the immigrant rights debate / [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {Stanford University Press,},
      address = {Stanford, California :},
      pages = {1  online resource (xiv, 226 p.) :},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {"On May 17, 2010, four undocumented students occupied the  Arizona office of Senator John McCain. Across the country a  flurry of occupations, hunger strikes, demonstrations, and  marches followed, calling for support of the DREAM Act that  would allow these young people the legal right to stay in  the United States. The highly public, confrontational  nature of these actions marked a sharp departure from more  subdued, anonymous forms of activism of years past. The  DREAMers provides the first investigation of the youth  movement that has transformed the national immigration  debate, from its start in the early 2000s through the  present day. Walter Nicholls draws on interviews, news  stories, and firsthand encounters with activists to  highlight the strategies and claims that have created this  now-powerful voice in American politics. Facing high levels  of anti-immigrant sentiment across the country,  undocumented youths sought to increase support for their  cause and change the terms of debate by arguing for their  unique position--as culturally integrated, long term  residents and most importantly as 'American' youth sharing  in core American values. Since 2010 undocumented activists  have increasingly claimed their own space in the public  sphere, asserting a right to recognition--a right to have  rights. Ultimately, through the story of the undocumented  youth movement, The DREAMers shows how a stigmatized  group--whether immigrants or others--can gain a powerful  voice in American political debate."--Publisher's website.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/694136},
}