Immigrants Under Threat: Risk and Resistance in Deportation Nation

Immigrants Under Threat: Risk and Resistance in Deportation Nation
ISBN-10
1479823929
ISBN-13
9781479823925
Category
Social Science
Pages
237
Language
English
Published
2018-06-26
Publisher
NYU Press
Author
Greg Prieto

Description

Everyday life as an immigrant in a deportation nation is fraught with risk, but everywhere immigrants confront repression and dispossession, they also manifest resistance in ways big and small. Immigrants Under Threat shifts the conversation from what has been done to Mexican immigrants to what they do in response. From private strategies of avoidance, to public displays of protest, immigrant resistance is animated by the massive demographic shifts that started in 1965 and an immigration enforcement regime whose unprecedented scope and intensity has made daily life increasingly perilous. Immigrants Under Threat focuses on the way the material needs of everyday life both enable and constrain participation in immigrant resistance movements.

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