DREAMers and the Choreography of Protest

Michael P. Young (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-760818-0 (ISBN)

Infos

DREAMers and the Choreography of Protest chronicles the history of the DREAMers--the term used to describe undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. Based on interviews with lead activists, extensive archival research, and years of ethnographic study, Michael P. Young details the making of the DREAMer, the early organizing of undocumented youth on college campuses cooperating with nonprofit organizations, and the independent organizing of an online network of radical undocumented youth. Tracing a sequence of escalating protests--from sit-ins to detention center infiltrations and border crossing actions--Young argues that this later network of DREAMer activists pushed the immigrant rights movement away from the elite-driven, insider politics of immigration reform toward radical direct action organized by and for undocumented immigrants. In one of the first accounts of the radical factions of DREAMer activism, Young provides a detailed and engrossing counternarrative of DREAMer history that offers some pragmatic lessons for activists and the allied supporters of social movements.

Autor

Michael P. Young is Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Bearing Witness against Sin: The Evangelical Birth of the American Social Movement. His research has been published in leading journals, including American Sociological Review, Social Problems, and Theory and Society.

Inhalt

Preface: "There's no movement"

Introduction: "To speak in its name": Movement Reification and Radicalization

Chapter 1: Conjuring the DREAMer

Chapter 2: Campus DREAMers

Chapter 3: DreamACTivist.org

Chapter 4: 2010, Part I: The Dream is Coming

Chapter 5: 2010, Part II: Noodles 2.0

Chapter 6: 2011: NIYA and the Bad Dreamers

Chapter 7: 2012 and 2013: Infiltrators and Coyotes

Conclusion: On the Mysteries of Movements and Radicalization

Appendix: Method and Data

Acknowledgements

Notes

References

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.9.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 235 mm
• Gewicht: 580 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• ISBN-10: 0-19-760818-3 / 0197608183
• ISBN-13: 978-0-19-760818-0 / 9780197608180
• Zustand: Neuware