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Against the deportation terror ::organizing for immigrant rights in the twentieth century /
No full textDespite being characterized as a "nation of immigrants," the United States has seen a long history of immigrant rights struggles. In her timely book Against the Deportation Terror, Rachel Ida Buff uncovers this multiracial history. She traces the story of the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born (ACPFB) from its origins in the 1930s through repression during the early Cold War, to engagement with "new" Latino and Caribbean immigrants in the 1970s and early 1980s. Functioning as a hub connecting diverse foreign-born communities and racial justice advocates, the ACPFB responded to various, ongoing crises of what they called "the deportation terror." Advocates worked against repression, discrimination, detention, and expulsion in migrant communities across the nation at the same time as they supported reform of federal immigration policy. Prevailing in some cases and suffering defeats in others, the story of the ACPFB is characterized by persistence in multiracial organizing even during periods of protracted repression. By tracing the work of the ACPFB and its allies over half a century, Against the Deportation Terror provides important historical precedent for contemporary immigrant rights organizing. Its lessons continue to resonate today
A is for Asylum Seeker / A de asilo [TOC]
No full textA clear and concise A to Z of keywords that echo our current human rights crisis
As millions are forced to leave their nations of origin due to political, economic, and environmental peril, rising racism and xenophobia has led to increasingly harsh policies. A mass-mediated political circus obscures both histories of migration and longstanding definitions of words for people on the move, fomenting widespread linguistic confusion. Under this circus tent, there is no regard for history, legal advocacy, or jurisprudence. Yet in a world where the differences between “undocumented migrant” and “asylum seeker” can mean life or death, words have weighty consequences.
A timely antidote to this circus, A is for Asylum Seeker reframes key words that describe people on the move. Written to correct the de-meaning of terms by rhetoric and policies based on dehumanization and profitable incarceration, this glossary provides an intersectional and historically grounded consideration of the words deployed in enflamed debate. Skipping some letters of the alphabet while repeating others, thirty terms cover everything from Asylum-seeker to Zero Tolerance Policy. Each entry begins with a contemporary or historical story for illustration and then proceeds to discuss the language politics of the word. The book balances terms impacted by current political debates—such as “migrant,” “refugee,” and “illegal alien”—and terms that offer historical context to these controversies, such as “fugitive,” “unhoused,” and “vagrant.”
Rendered in both English and Spanish, this book offers a unique perspective on the journeys, histories, challenges, and aspirations of people on the move. Enhancing the book’s utility as an educational and organizing resource, the author provides a list of works for further reading as well as a directory of immigration advocacy organizations throughout the United States.
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Un claro y breve abecedario de palabras clave que hacen eco en nuestra crisis humanitaria presente.
Mientras millones son forzados de huir de sus naciones de origen debido a peligro político, económico, y ecológico, racismo y xenofobia han llevado a políticas más y más severas. Un circo político en los medios oculta a ambas las historias de inmigración y las definiciones antiguas de palabras para personas en movimiento, creando confusión lingüística amplia. Bajo esta carpa de circo, no hay consideración para historia, defensa legal, o jurisprudencia. Pero en un mundo donde las diferencias entre “migrante indocumentade” y “solicitante de asilo” pueden ser la diferencia entre vida y muerte, palabras tienen consecuencias graves.
Un antídoto oportuno a este circo, A de Asilo re-enmarca palabras claves que describen a personas en movimiento. Escrito para corregir la de-significación de términos por retórica y políticas basadas en deshumanización y encarcelación lucrosa, este glosario provee una consideración interseccional e histórica de las palabras usadas en debate inflamado. Brincando a unas letras del alfabeto mientras repite a otras, treinta términos cubren todo desde Asilo a Tolerancia Cero. Cada artículo empieza con una historia contemporánea u histórica para ilustrar, y después discute la política alrededor de la palabra. El libro balancea términos impactados por debates políticos contemporáneos—como “migrante,” “refugiado” y “extranjero ilegal”—y términos que ofrecen contexto histórico a estas controversias, como “fugitivo” “sin casa” y “vagante.”
Escrito en inglés y español, este libro ofrece una perspectiva única en las jornadas, historias, retos, y aspiraciones de personas en movimiento. Aumentando la utilidad del libro como un recurso educacional y organizacional, la autora provee una lista de obras para más lectura, igual que un directorio de organizaciones de defensa de inmigrantes a través de los Estados Unidos
Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture, 2006: Picture of Victor Greene, Ewa Barczyk, Rachel Ida Buff and Christine Neumann-Ortiz
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Mary Hayden Green Pike
No full textAn image scanned from a black and white photograph of Maine author Mary Hayden Green Pike, 1824-1908. Pike\u27s novels include Ida May, Caste, and Agnes. In an abstract to her 1947 thesis about Pike, Rachel R. Griffin noted, Mary Hayden Green Pike, a pre-Civil War novelist of Calais, Maine, was one of the more popular writers to follow in the wake of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Deeply concerned with the moral issue of the slavery question, she visited the South, where she made close observation of the slavery system. Griffin also noted that as of the time of writing, an extended study of her life and works has not been written. Whatever the cause of her obscurity, her popularity as a novelist of the \u27feminine fifties,\u27 her enthusiasm for the abolitionist cause, and her value as a propagandist seem to merit more than literary oblivion.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/spec_photos/2894/thumbnail.jp
Voicing the Feminine in J.M. Coetzee's Fiction
No full textJM Coetzee, the Nobel Prize-winning South African author, often defies categorization. His thirteen novels vary in style greatly, although all are written with a striking self-consciousness and anxiety of authority. My project deals mainly with his novel Foe (1986) inspired by Daniel Defoe, and his 1990 novel Age of Iron. Foe is often described as an allegory of colonial South Africa; however, this reading is complicated by the novel’s premise as a reworking of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Coetzee skillfully gives the story of Crusoe to a woman, Susan Barton, who may be read as a prefiguration of the main character of Defoe’s Roxana. In the hands of Susan Barton, the island story becomes a miasma of doubts over authorship and representations of political and social subordination and dominance, centering on the mute Friday. I explore this novel in relation to Age of Iron, which describes the experiences of a white woman in South Africa’s state of emergency during Apartheid. I read both novels as feminist works in which Coetzee consciously finds ways to voice the feminine against a history of silencing the feminine. Coetzee is able to creatively define the female voice in new ways by transforming characters who are traditionally underrepresented into figures of power by consciously reimagining canonical texts.Englis
Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship
No full textVictor C. Romero is a contributing author: Who Should Manage Immigration - Congress or the States? An Introduction to Constitutional Immigration Law. Chapter 12, page 286.
Punctuated by marches across the United States in the spring of 2006, immigrant rights has reemerged as a significant and highly visible political issue. Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of U.S. Citizenship brings prominent activists and scholars together to examine the emergence and significance of the contemporary immigrant rights movement. Contributors place the contemporary immigrant rights movement in historical and comparative contexts by looking at the ways immigrants and their allies have staked claims to rights in the past, and by examining movements based in different communities around the United States. Scholars explain the evolution of immigration policy, and analyze current conflicts around issues of immigrant rights; activists engaged in the current movement document the ways in which coalitions have been built among immigrants from different nations, and between immigrant and native born peoples. The essays examine the ways in which questions of immigrant rights engage broader issues of identity, including gender, race, and sexuality.
- From the Publisherhttps://insight.dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/book_contributions/1002/thumbnail.jp
Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship
No full textVictor C. Romero is a contributing author: Who Should Manage Immigration - Congress or the States? An Introduction to Constitutional Immigration Law. Chapter 12, page 286.
Punctuated by marches across the United States in the spring of 2006, immigrant rights has reemerged as a significant and highly visible political issue. Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of U.S. Citizenship brings prominent activists and scholars together to examine the emergence and significance of the contemporary immigrant rights movement. Contributors place the contemporary immigrant rights movement in historical and comparative contexts by looking at the ways immigrants and their allies have staked claims to rights in the past, and by examining movements based in different communities around the United States. Scholars explain the evolution of immigration policy, and analyze current conflicts around issues of immigrant rights; activists engaged in the current movement document the ways in which coalitions have been built among immigrants from different nations, and between immigrant and native born peoples. The essays examine the ways in which questions of immigrant rights engage broader issues of identity, including gender, race, and sexuality.
- From the Publisherhttps://insight.dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/book_contributions/1002/thumbnail.jp
Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship
No full textVictor C. Romero is a contributing author: Who Should Manage Immigration - Congress or the States? An Introduction to Constitutional Immigration Law. Chapter 12, page 286.
Punctuated by marches across the United States in the spring of 2006, immigrant rights has reemerged as a significant and highly visible political issue. Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of U.S. Citizenship brings prominent activists and scholars together to examine the emergence and significance of the contemporary immigrant rights movement. Contributors place the contemporary immigrant rights movement in historical and comparative contexts by looking at the ways immigrants and their allies have staked claims to rights in the past, and by examining movements based in different communities around the United States. Scholars explain the evolution of immigration policy, and analyze current conflicts around issues of immigrant rights; activists engaged in the current movement document the ways in which coalitions have been built among immigrants from different nations, and between immigrant and native born peoples. The essays examine the ways in which questions of immigrant rights engage broader issues of identity, including gender, race, and sexuality.
- From the Publisherhttps://elibrary.law.psu.edu/book_contributions/1002/thumbnail.jp
