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Here We May Rest

Alabama Immigrants in the Age of HB 56

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Buch | Softcover
302 Seiten
2017
NewSouth Books (Verlag)
978-1-60306-432-3 (ISBN)
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Offers a comprehensive explanation of how and why Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer & Citizen Protection Act came about and reports on its effects on immigrant communities. Silvia Giagnoni argues that the legislation was anti-immigrant, not merely ‘anti-illegal immigration’ as its proponents claimed.
Hailed as the most restrictive immigration bill in the nation, the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer & Citizen Protection Act (known as HB 56) went into effect in September 2011. Its intent was to create jobs for Alabamians by making the lives of undocumented immigrants in the state impossible, so that they would self-deport. It failed.

Here We May Rest offers a comprehensive explanation of how and why HB 56 came about and reports on its effects on immigrant communities. Author Silvia Giagnoni argues that the legislation was anti-immigrant, not merely "anti-illegal immigration" as its proponents claimed. Building a case against the legalistic framework through which the bill was promoted, Giagnoni dissects the role the media, and Fox News specifically, played in criminalizing immigrants as well as mainstreaming immigrant-haters, which created the xenophobic climate that paved the way for the Trump Presidency.

The new immigrants of Alabama take center stage in the second part of the book, reclaiming their role in the cultural, social, and economic development of the state. Giagnoni concludes with an appeal against any form of social segregation because only direct contact—"massive, prolonged, equal and intimate," as Howard Zinn argued—will cure the stereotyping and prejudice that feed ignorance and foster fear.

SILVIA GIAGNONI is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Theatre at Auburn University Montgomery. She divides her time between Alabama and Tuscany. She has published essays and books in English and Italian, including Fields of Resistance: The Struggle of Florida’s Farmworkers for Justice.

Erscheinungsdatum
Vorwort Mónica Ramírez
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-60306-432-X / 160306432X
ISBN-13 978-1-60306-432-3 / 9781603064323
Zustand Neuware
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