Immigrant Rights in the Nuevo South: Enforcement and Resistance at the Borderlands of Illegality - Couverture rigide

Conley, Meghan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1439916446 ISBN 13 : 9781439916445

Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 2019

Synopsis

Every day, undocumented immigrants are rendered vulnerable through policies and practices that illegalize them. Moreover, they are socially constructed into dangerous criminals and taxpayer burdens who are undeserving of rights, dignity, and respect. Meghan Conley's timely book, Immigrant Rights in the Nuevo South, seeks to expose and challenge these dehumanizing ideas and practices byexamining the connections between repression and resistance for unauthorized immigrants in communities across the American Southeast.

Conley uses on-the-ground interviews to describe fear and resistance from the perspective of those most affected by it. She shows how, for example, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act in Georgia prompted marches and an action that became "a day of non-compliance." Likewise, an "enforcement lottery" that created unpredictable threats of arrest and deportation in the region mobilized immigrants to organize and demonstrate. However, as immigrant rights activists mobilize in opposition to the criminalization of undocumented people, they may unintentionally embrace stories of who deserves to be in the United States and who does not. Immigrant Rights in the Nuevo South explores these paradoxes while offering keen observations about the nature and power of Latinx resistance.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Meghan Conley is the Director of Community Partnerships in the Department of Sociology at the University of Tennessee. She is the co-author of Immigration and Population.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1439916446
• ISBN 13: 9781439916445
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible