672
Views
2
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Choosing to be political: some reflections on youth activism in the US

Pages 243-258 | Received 15 Apr 2017, Accepted 21 Feb 2018, Published online: 14 Mar 2018

References

  • Abrego, L. J. 2011. “Legal Consciousness of Undocumented Latinos: Fear and Stigma as Barriers to Claims-making for First- and 1.5-generation Immigrants.” Law and Society Review 45 (2): 337–370.10.1111/j.1540-5893.2011.00435.x
  • Andrijasevic, R. 2013. “Acts of Citizenship as Methodology.” In Enacting European Citizenship, edited by E. F. Isin and M. Saward, 47–65. New York: Cambridge University Press.10.1017/CBO9781139524025
  • Aradau, C., J. Huysmans, and V. Squire. 2010. “Acts of European Citizenship: A Political Sociology of Mobility.” JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 48 (4): 945–965.10.1111/jcms.2010.48.issue-4
  • Arditi, B. 2009. “Disagreement without Reconciliation: Democracy, Equality and the Public Realm.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 12 (2): 167–181.10.1080/13698230902892036
  • Barbero, I. 2012. “Expanding Acts of Citizenship: The Struggles of Sinpapeles Migrants.” Social & Legal Studies 21 (4): 529–547.10.1177/0964663912455944
  • Bendelow, G., and S. Williams. 1995. “Transcending the Dualisms: Towards a Sociology of Pain.” Sociology of Health and Illness 17 (2): 139–165.10.1111/shil.1995.17.issue-2
  • Chauvin, S., and B. Garcés-Mascareñas. 2014. “Becoming Less Illegal: Deservingness Frames and Undocumented Migrant Incorporation.” Sociology Compass 8 (4): 422–432.
  • Chavez, L. R. 2012. Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society. Belmont: Cengage Learning.
  • Cohen, A. P. 1994. Self-Consciousness. An Alternative Anthropology of Identity. London: Routledge.10.4324/9780203418987
  • Committee on the Judiciary. 2007. “Comprehensive Immigration Reform: The Future of Undocumented Immigrant Students: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary.” 110th Congress. https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-110hhrg35453/html/CHRG-110hhrg35453.htm.
  • Corrunker, L. 2012. ““Coming out of the Shadows’: DREAM Act Activism in the Context of Global Anti-deportation Activism.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 19 (1): 143–168.10.2979/indjglolegstu.19.1.143
  • Coutin, S. B. 2003. “Illegality, Borderlands, and the Space of Nonexistence.” In Globalization under Construction: Governmentality, Law, and Identity, edited by R. W. Perry and B. Maurer, 171–202. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota.
  • Derose, K. P., J. J. Escarce, and N. Lurie. 2007. “Immigrants and Health Care: Sources of Vulnerability.” Health Affairs 26 (5): 1258–1268.10.1377/hlthaff.26.5.1258
  • Ewick, P., and S. S. Silbey. 1998. The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
  • Flores, W. V. 2003. “New Citizens, New Rights: Undocumented Immigrants and Latino Cultural Citizenship.” Latin American Perspectives 30 (2): 87–100.
  • Foucault, M. 2000. “Power.” In Essential Works of Foucault: 1954–1984, edited by J. D. Faubion. New York: New Press.
  • Foucault, M. 2007. Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège De France 1977–78. Translated by G. Burchell. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Foucault, M. 2008. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège De France 1978–1979. Translated by G. Burchell. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Galindo, R. 2012. “Undocumented & Unafraid: The DREAM Act 5 and the Public Disclosure of Undocumented Status as a Political Act.” The Urban Review 44 (5): 589–611.10.1007/s11256-012-0219-0
  • de Genova, N. 2002. “Migrant ‘Illegality’ and Deportability in Everyday Life.” Annual Review of Anthropology 31: 419–447.10.1146/annurev.anthro.31.040402.085432
  • de Genova, N. P. 2005. Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and ‘Illegality’ in Mexican Chicago. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.10.1215/9780822387091
  • Giddens, A. 1984. The Constitution of Society. Outline of the Theory of Structuration. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Giddens, A. 1991. Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Gleeson, S., and R. G. Gonzales. 2012. “When Do Papers Matter? An Institutional Analysis of Undocumented Life in the United States.” International Migration 50 (4): 1–19.10.1111/imig.2012.50.issue-4
  • Gold, S. J., and R. G. Rumbaut, eds. 2015. The New Americans. Recent Immigration and American Society. El Paso: LFB Scholarly Publishing.
  • Gonzales, R. G. 2015. Lives in Limbo. Undocumented and Coming of Age in America. Oakland: University of California Press.
  • Heidegger, M. [1927] 1962. Being and Time, Translated by J. Macquarrie and E. Robinson. New York: Harper & Row.
  • Isin, E. F. 2008. “Theorizing Acts of Citizenship.” In Acts of Citizenship, edited by E. F. Isin and G. M. Nielsen, 15–43. London: Zed Books.
  • Isin, E. F. 2009. “Citizenship in Flux: The Figure of the Activist Citizen.” Subjectivity 29 (1): 367–388.10.1057/sub.2009.25
  • Lemke, T. 2002. “Foucault, Governmentality, and Critique.” Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society 14 (3): 49–64.10.1080/089356902101242288
  • Lorentzen, L. A., ed. 2014a. Hidden Lives and Human Rights in the United States. Understanding the Controversies and Tragedies of Undocumented Immigration. Vol. 2 of Human Rights, Gender/Sexualities, Health and Education. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
  • Lorentzen, L. A., ed. 2014b. Hidden Lives and Human Rights in the United States. Understanding the Controversies and Tragedies of Undocumented Immigration. Vol. 3 of Economics, Politics, and Morality Human Rights, Gender/Sexualities, Health and Education. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
  • McNevin, A. 2011. Contesting Citizenship. Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Menjívar, C. 2006. “Liminal Legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Immigrants’ Lives in the United States.” American Journal of Sociology 111 (4): 999–1037.10.1086/499509
  • Merleau-Ponty, M. [1945] 1996. Phenomenology of Perception. Translated by Colin Smith. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers.
  • Merleau-Ponty, M. [1948] 2002. The World of Perception. Oxon: Routledge.
  • Mezzadra, S. 2004. “The Right to Escape.” Ephemera 4 (3): 267–275.
  • Mitropoulos, A. 2006. “Autonomy, Recognition, Movement.” The Commoner 11: 5–14.
  • Morris, B. 1996. Western Conceptions of the Individual. Oxford: BERG.
  • Negrón-Gonzales, G. 2014. “Undocumented, Unafraid and Unapologetic: Re-articulatory Practices and Migrant Youth ‘Illegality’.” Latino Studies 12 (2): 259–278.10.1057/lst.2014.20
  • Negrón-Gonzales, G. 2015. “Undocumented Youth Activism as Counter-spectacle: Civil Disobedience and Testimonio in the Battle around Immigration Reform.” Aztlán, A Journal of Chicano Studies 40 (1): 87–112.
  • Nessel, L. A. 2001. “Undocumented Immigrants in the Workplace: The Fallacy of Labor Protection and the Need for Reform.” Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 36 (2): 345–405.
  • Ngai, M. M. 2004. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Nicholls, W. J. 2013. The DREAMers: How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigrant Rights Debate. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Nyers, P., and K. Rygiel, eds. 2012. Citizenship, Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Papadopoulos, D., and V. Tsianos. 2013. “After Citizenship: Autonomy of Migration, Organisational Ontology and Mobile Commons.” Citizenship Studies 17 (2): 178–196.10.1080/13621025.2013.780736
  • Paterson, K., and B. Hughes. 1999. “Disability Studies and Phenomenology: The Carnal Politics of Everyday Life.” Disability & Society 14 (5): 597–610.10.1080/09687599925966
  • Perez, W. 2009. We are Americans. Undocumented Students Pursuing the American Dream. Sterling: Stylus.
  • Perez, W., R. Espinoza, K. Ramos, H. M. Coronado, and R. Cortes. 2009. “Academic Resilience among Undocumented Latino Students.” Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 31 (2): 149–181.10.1177/0739986309333020
  • Perez, W., R. Espinoza, K. Ramos, H. M. Coronado, and R. Cortes. 2010. “Civic Engagement Patterns of Undocumented Mexican Students.” Journal of Hispanic Higher Education 9 (3): 245–265.10.1177/1538192710371007
  • Price, P. L., C. Lukinbeal, R. N. Gioioso, D. D. Arreola, D. J. Fernández, T. Ready, and M. de los Angeles Torres. 2011. “Placing Latino Civic Engagement.” Urban Geography 32 (2): 179–207.10.2747/0272-3638.32.2.179
  • Puggioni, R. 2014a. “Speaking through the Body: Detention and Bodily Resistance in Italy.” Citizenship Studies 18 (5): 562–577.10.1080/13621025.2014.923707
  • Puggioni, R. 2014b. “Against Camps’ Violence: Some Voices on Italian Holding Centres.” Political Studies 62 (4): 945–960.10.1111/1467-9248.12051
  • Puggioni, R. 2015. “Border Politics, Right to Life and Acts of Dissensus : Voices from the Lampedusa Borderland.” Third World Quarterly 36 (6): 1145–1159.10.1080/01436597.2015.1047199
  • Puggioni, R. 2016. Rethinking International Protection: The Sovereign, The State, The Refugee. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.10.1057/978-1-137-48310-2
  • Rancière, J. 1992. “Politics, Identification, and Subjectivization.” The Identity in Question 61: 58–64.
  • Rancière, J. 1999. Dis-agreement. Politics and Philosophy. Translated by J. Rose. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Rigby, J., and R. Schlembach. 2013. “Impossible Protest: Noborders in Calais.” Citizenship Studies 17 (2): 157–172.10.1080/13621025.2013.780731
  • Rivera-Batiz, F. L. 1999. “Undocumented Workers in the Labor Market: An Analysis of the Earnings of Legal and Illegal Mexican Immigrants in the United States.” Journal of Population Economics 12 (1): 91–116.10.1007/s001480050092
  • Rogers, J., M. Saunders, V. Terriquez, and V. Valez. 2008. “Civic Lessons: Public Schools and the Civic Development of Undocumented Students and Parents.” Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy 3 (2): 201–218.
  • Rose, N. 2004. Powers of Freedom. Reframing Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Rumbaut, R. G. 2008. “The Coming of the Second Generation: Immigration and Ethnic Mobility in Southern California.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 620 (1): 196–236.10.1177/0002716208322957
  • Rygiel, K. 2014. “In Life through Death: Transgressive Citizenship at the Border.” In Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies, edited by E. F. Isin and P. Nyers, 62–72. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Sartre, J.-P. [1943] 2003. Being and Nothingness. An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology. Translated by H. E. Barnes. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Schwiertz, H. 2016. “Transformations of the Undocumented Youth Movement and Radical Egalitarian Citizenship.” Citizenship Studies 20 (5): 610–628.
  • Seif, H. 2011. “‘Unapologetic and Unafraid’: Immigrant Youth Come out from the Shadows.” New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development 134: 59–75.10.1002/cd.v2011.134
  • Seif, H. 2014. “‘Coming out of the Shadows’ and ‘Undocuqueer’: Undocumented Immigrants Transforming Sexuality Discourse and Activism.” Journal of Language and Sexuality 3 (1): 87–120.
  • Suárez-Orozco, C., M. G. Hernández, and S. Casanova. 2015. “‘It’s Sort of My Calling’: The Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility of Latino Immigrant-origin Young Adults.” Research in Human Development 12 (1–2): 84–99.10.1080/15427609.2015.1010350
  • de la Torre, P., and R. Germano. 2014. “Out of the Shadows: DREAMer Identity in the Immigrant Youth Movement.” Latino Studies 12 (3): 449–467.10.1057/lst.2014.45
  • Unzueta Carrasco, T. A., and H. Seif. 2014. “Disrupting the Dream: Undocumented Youth Reframe Citizenship and Deportability through Anti-deportation Activism.” Latino Studies 12 (2): 279–299.10.1057/lst.2014.21
  • U.S. Supreme Court 1982, Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/457/202/case.html.
  • Vargas, J. A. 2011. “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant.” The New York Times, June 22.
  • Vélez, V., L. P. Huber, C. B. Lopez, A. de la Luzand, and D. G. Solórzano. 2008. “Battling for Human Rights and Social Justice: A Latina/O Critical Race Media Analysis of Latina/O Student Youth Activism in the Wake of 2006 Anti-immigrant Sentiment.” Social Justice 35 (111): 7–27.
  • Walters, W. 2008. “Acts of Demonstration: Mapping the Territory of (Non-)Citizenship”. In Acts of Citizenship, edited by E. Isin and G. Neilson, 182–207. London: Zed Books.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.