"Coming Out of the Shadows": DREAM Act Activism in the Context of Global Anti-Deportation Activism

@article{Corrunker2012ComingOO,
  title={"Coming Out of the Shadows": DREAM Act Activism in the Context of Global Anti-Deportation Activism},
  author={Laura Corrunker},
  journal={Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies},
  year={2012},
  volume={19},
  pages={143 - 168}
}
  • Laura Corrunker
  • Published 11 July 2012
  • Sociology
  • Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This Article, based on ethnographic fieldwork with an undocumented, youth-led immigrant rights organization, explores undocumented youth activism in the United States in relation to global anti-deportation movements. The strategies that undocumented youth utilize in their fight for the DREAM Act, a bill that creates provisions for certain undocumented youth to legalize their status, are compared with examples of anti-deportation activism outside the United States. In comparing the DREAM Act… 
View via Publisher
repository.law.indiana.edu
51 Citations
Highly Influential Citations
6
Background Citations
29
Methods Citations
4
Results Citations
2

51 Citations

The DREAM Act Controversy: Collective Action and Public Self-Representation of Undocumented Youth
This article investigates the advocacy of so-called undocumented immigrant youth for the United States DREAM Act, a highly controversial piece of legislation proposed to provide qualifying…
Choosing to be political: some reflections on youth activism in the US
Abstract This article explores youth activism in the US, not through the lens of collective action, but as the product of personal choices. By drawing on existentialism, and particularly on the work…
Organic Activists: Undocumented Youth Creating Spaces of Acompañamiento
ABSTRACT Our research brings attention to undocumented youth activism as a space controlled by marginalized youth. We discuss the case study of a youth-led grassroots group in Texas to explore how…
Counter Culture Youth: Immigrant Rights Activism and the Undocumented Youth Vanguard
This thesis offers a social, historical, and political analysis of the Undocumented Youth Movement from 1986 to 2012 for the purposes of understanding how the movement carved out spaces of social…
Transformations of the undocumented youth movement and radical egalitarian citizenship
  • Helge Schwiertz
  • Sociology
    The Contentious Politics of Refugee and Migrant Protest and Solidarity Movements
  • 2018
Abstract In the past decade, a movement of undocumented migrant youth has emerged in the United States to struggle against their criminalization and discrimination. Whereas it was first described as…
Coming Out of the Shadows and the Closet: Visibility Schemas Among Undocuqueer Immigrants
TLDR
How the intersection of gender, sexuality, and immigration status nullifies neoliberal narratives of coming out as an empowering process is considered and illustrating the uneven landscapes of social acceptance and political control that undocuqueer immigrants must negotiate is illustrated.
Undocumented citizens: The civic engagement of activist immigrants
IDEAS is the undocumented student support group at University of California Los Angeles. This ethnography follows their planning of a conference on immigrant rights legislation. How do undocumented…
Mobilization Strategies within The Immigrant Rights Movement in Los Angeles
As the United States experiences another increase in anti-immigrant laws and targeted enforcement practices of the undocumented community, immigrant rights organizations are responding with…
Working with the Complexity and Refusing to Simplify: Undocuqueer Meaning Making at the Intersection of LGBTQ and Immigrant Rights Discourses
TLDR
Gender, sexuality, and immigration status, and their conceptual margins, are brought to the center of analysis via the narratives of 31 self-identified undocuqueer immigrants to further understanding the way that queer politics and identity interact with various axes of inequality.
Empowered inclusion: theorizing global justice for children and youth
ABSTRACT This paper argues that contemporary child and youth experiences of globalization call for retheorizing global justice around a new concept of empowered inclusion. The first part of the paper…
...
...

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 17 REFERENCES
Left Out But Not Shut Down: Political Activism and the Undocumented Student Movement
1 In the spring of 2006, cities across the United States witnessed unprecedented numbers of young people taking to the streets in protest. In the wake of the protests, social scientists, political…
Migrant “Illegality” and Deportability in Everyday Life
▪ Abstract This article strives to meet two challenges. As a review, it provides a critical discussion of the scholarship concerning undocumented migration, with a special emphasis on…
Liminal Legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Immigrants' Lives in the United States1
This article examines the effects of an uncertain legal status on the lives of immigrants, situating their experiences within frameworks of citizenship/belonging and segmented assimilation, and using…
Moments of Emergence: Organizing by and with Undocumented and Non-Citizen People in Canada after September 11
Striking new campaigns across Europe, the United States, and Australia led by refugees, im/migrants, undocumented people, and allies challenge controls over the right to move freely across borders.…
Absence, "Removal," and Everyday Life in the Diasporic City
This article is concerned with the “removal” (the Canadian government policy word for deportation) of noncitizens rendered suspect in the climate of 9-1-1 Islamophobia, who are detained and/or…
Political Belonging in a Neoliberal Era: The Struggle of the Sans-Papiers
This article argues that political belonging should be understood in the context of diverse spatial imaginaries which encompass but are not confined to the state. Engin Isin's approach to citizenship…
The Queer Politics of Migration: Reflections on “Illegality” and Incorrigibility
The most resounding expression of the truly unprecedented mobilizations of migrants throughout the United States in 2006 was a mass proclamation of collective defiance: iAqui Estamos, y No Nos Vamos!…
Outside the imagined community: undocumented settlers and experiences of incorporation
This article argues that, because they accumulate economic and social linkages to U.S. society, many undocumented Mexican and Central American immigrants intend to stay in the United States and…
“I Can’t Go to College Because I Don’t Have Papers”: Incorporation Patterns Of Latino Undocumented Youth
Undocumented immigration has gained unprecedented prominence in many of the world's wealthiest nation-states. In the United States, a substantial population of undocumented youth is growing up with…
Blocked Paths, Uncertain Futures: The Postsecondary Education and Labor Market Prospects of Undocumented Latino Youth
Over the past few decades, undocumented settlement in the United States has grown to unprecedented numbers. Among the nearly 12 million undocumented immigrants, a substantial portion of undocumented…
...
...