| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Voice and Power of Undocumented Youths, an Unlikely Story; Chapter 1. Finding Political Openings in a Hostile Country; Chapter 2. The Birth of the DREAMer; Chapter 3. Taking a Stand; Chapter 4. Rebirth from the Grassroots Up; Chapter 5. Undocumented, Unafraid, Unapologetic; Chapter 6. DREAMers and the Immigrant Rights Movement; Conclusion: Dreaming Through the Nation-state. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Immigrant youth -- Civil rights -- United States.
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Noncitizens -- Political activity -- United States.
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| Local Subject |
Undocumented immigration -- United States.
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| Subject |
Immigrants -- Civil rights -- United States.
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Youth protest movements -- United States.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Illegal immigration -- United States.
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Immigrant youth -- Political activity -- United States.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nicholls, Walter. DREAMers. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013] 9780804787031 (DLC) 2013011191 (OCoLC)830992881 |
| ISBN |
9780804788694 (electrionic bks) |
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0804788693 (electrionic bks) |
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