Socially Undocumented - Identity and Imigration Justice

Socially Undocumented offers a new vision of immigration justice that focuses on "socially undocumented identity" in the United States. Reed-Sandoval argues that to be socially undocumented is to possess a real social identity that does not always track one's legal status in the United States.

About the author

Amy Reed-Sandoval is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her research focuses on themes in political philosophy, Latin American and Latinx philosophy, feminist philosophy, and bioethics. She is the founding director of the Oaxaca Philosophy for Children Initiative in Oaxaca City, Mexico, and the Philosophy for Children in the Borderlands program in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

Summary

Socially Undocumented offers a new vision of immigration justice that focuses on "socially undocumented identity" in the United States. Reed-Sandoval argues that to be socially undocumented is to possess a real social identity that does not always track one's legal status in the United States.

Additional text

the book provides an exciting, thought-provoking and innovative approach to immigration justice, while offering methodological tools that allow us to explore immigration justice from new perspectives ... The book's contribution to the immigration justice debate is particularly valuable, as it enhances our understanding of the different kinds of oppression to which immigrants are subjected.

Product details

• Authors: Amy Reed-Sandoval, Amy (Assistant Professor Reed-Sandoval, Reed-Sandoval Amy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780190619800
• ISBN: 978-0-19-061980-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Philosophy of Race
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Feminism & feminist theory, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Feminism and feminist theory