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Zusatztext "The 'fight for inclusion in . . . could not have been waged so effectively without prior grassroots work by . . . unions! the religious community! and immigrant rights organizations." Informationen zum Autor Kim Voss is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California! Berkeley. She is coauthor! with Rick Fantasia! of Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement (UC Press)! coauthor of Inequality by Design ! and author of The Making of American Exceptionalism. Irene Bloemraad is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California! Berkeley. She is author of Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada (UC Press). Klappentext “Through the excellent and noteworthy pieces of scholarship here, Rallying for Immigrant Rights vividly captures the dynamics of the 2006 immigration protests. This volume heralds an exciting shift in the study of political participation and raises timely questions about protest, immigration, and U.S. politics.” —Kenneth T. Andrews, author of Freedom is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy “ Rallying for Immigrant Rights challenges the existing theories in political behavior and social movement writings. This is a timely and excellent volume, and it should be required reading for anyone interested in political activism.” —Lisa García Bedolla, Chair, Center for Latino Policy Research, UC Berkeley “The essays in Rallying for Immigrant Rights offer an enlightening perspective on the 2006 protests and what they mean for the future of immigration politics in the U.S. This impressively orginal volume will be a standard reference for years to come.” —Karthick Ramakrishnan, Associate Professor of Political Science, UC Riverside Zusammenfassung From Alaska to Florida, millions of immigrants and their supporters took to the streets across the US to rally for immigrant rights in the spring of 2006. The scope and size of their protests, rallies, and boycotts made these the most significant events of political activism in the US since the 1960s. This book analyses this historic moment. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments What Happened? The Historically Unprecedented Mobilizations of Spring 2006 1. The Protests of 2006: What Were They! How Do We Understand Them! Where Do We Go? Irene Bloemraad! Kim Voss! and Taeku Lee 2. Groundswell Meets Groundwork: Building on the Mobilizations to Empower Immigrant Communities Ted Wang and Robert C. Winn Mobilization Dynamics: Why and How the Protests Happened 3. Mobilization en Español: Spanish-Language Radio and the Activation of Political Identities Ricardo Ramírez 4. Building the Labor-Clergy-Immigrant Alliance Randy Shaw 5. From Prayer to Protest: The Immigrant Rights Movement and the Catholic Church Luisa Heredia 6. Mobilizing Marchers in the Mile-High City: The Role of Community-Based Organizations Lisa M. Martinez 7. Migrant Civic Engagement Jonathan Fox and Xóchitl Bada 8. Regarding Family: New Actors in the Chicago Protests Amalia Pallares and Nilda Flores-González 9. It's a Family Affair: Intergenerational Mobilization in the Spring 2006 Protests Irene Bloemraad and Christine Trost Looking Forward: Whither American Politics and Immigrant Rights Mobilization? 10. LA's Past! America's Future? The 2006 Immigrant Rights Protests and Their Antecedents Ruth Milkman 11. Drawing New Lines in the Sand: Evaluating the Failure of Immigration Reforms from 2006 to the Beginning of the Obama Administration Louis DeS...
