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Undocumented Migrants in the United States - Ina Batzke

Undocumented Migrants in the United States

Life Narratives and Self-representations

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Buch | Softcover
212 Seiten
2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-66619-4 (ISBN)
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This book explores how undocumented migrants in the United States have represented themselves in narrative form, entering the struggle for political self-representation by telling their own stories. This interdisciplinary exploration of migrant narratives will interest researchers across American Literary Studies, Citizenship, and Migr
Whilst many undocumented migrants in the United States continue to exist in the shadows, since the turn of the millennium an increasing number have emerged within public debate, casting themselves against the dominant discursive trope of the "illegal alien," and entering the struggle over political self-representation. Drawing on a range of life narratives published from 2001 to 2016, this book explores how undocumented migrants have represented themselves in various narrative forms in the context of the DREAM Act and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) movement.

By reading these self-representations as both a product of America's changing views on citizenship and membership, and an arena where such views can potentially be challenged, the book interrogates the role such self-representations have played not only in constructing undocumented migrant identities, but also in shaping social borders. At a time when the inclusion and exclusion of (potential) citizens is once again highly debated in the United States, the book concludes by giving a potential indication of where views on undocumented migration might be headed. This interdisciplinary exploration of migrant narratives will be of interest to scholars and researchers across American Literary and Cultural Studies, Citizenship Studies, and Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Ina Batzke is Lecturer at the Chair of American Studies at Münster University, Germany, and Visiting Scholar at the Department of History at UC Santa Barbara, California, USA

Introduction: Documenting the Undocumented Part 1: From Aliens to DREAMers 1. The Making of the "Illegal Alien" 2. A Pathway to Citizenship for "Illegal Aliens" Part 2: Life Narratives by Undocumented Migrants 3. The Beginnings of the Undocumented Movement: The First Congressional Testimonies 4. The Undocumented Movement Comes of Age: Underground Undergrads: UCLA Undocumented Immigrant Students Speak Out 5. Unapologetic, Unafraid, Undocuqueer: Jose Antonio Vargas’ "Outlaw" Part 3: Life Writing by Undocumented Migrants 6. From DREAM Act to DACA, from Life Narrative to Life Writing: Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s Undocumented 7. Challenging How to Narrate Undocumentedness: José Ángel N.’s Illegal Concluding Remarks:
Undocumented in Trump’s America

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 390 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-367-66619-7 / 0367666197
ISBN-13 978-0-367-66619-4 / 9780367666194
Zustand Neuware
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