Remaking Citizenship
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Remaking Citizenship

Latina Immigrants and New American Politics

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Remaking Citizenship

Latina Immigrants and New American Politics

About this book

Standing at the intersection of immigration and welfare reform, immigrant Latin American women are the target of special scrutiny in the United States. Both the state and the media often present them as scheming "welfare queens" or long-suffering, silent victims of globalization and machismo. This book argues for a reformulation of our definitions of citizenship and politics, one inspired by women who are usually perceived as excluded from both.

Weaving the stories of Mexican and Central American women with history and analysis of the anti-immigrant upsurge in 1990s California, this compelling book examines the impact of reform legislation on individual women's lives and their engagement in grassroots political organizing. Their accounts of personal and political transformation offer a new vision of politics rooted in concerns as disparate as domestic violence, childrearing, women's self-esteem, and immigrant and workers' rights.

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Passing 
the 
Time 
with 
MUA
May 
Day 
2006, 
Market 
Street, 
San 
Francisco
concert 
to 
make 
long 
waves 
up 
and 
down 
Market 
Street 
from 
City 
Hall 
and 
the 
Civic 
Center 
to 
the 
Ferry 
Building 
at 
the 
Port 
of 
San 
Francisco.
e 
fi
rst 
national 
walkout 
of 
this 
scale 
for 
immigrant 
rights 
reclaimed 
the 
international 
celebration 
of 
organized 
labor 
for 
a 
new 
American 
workforce. 
If 
the 
contemporary 
global 
order 
denies 
the 
dignity 
of 
labor 
and 
seeks 
to 
de
fi
ne 
Passing 
the 
Time 
with 
MUA 
25
May 
Day 
2006, 
Market 
Street, 
San 
Francisco
us 
by 
what 
we 
consume, 
these 
demonstrators 
embodied 
the 
message 
that 
not 
all 
workers 
are 
men, 
not 
all 
consumers 
are 
adults, 
and 
not 
all 
voters 
are 
white 
and 
native-born. 
In 
the 
words 
of 
one 
banner, 
“Today 
we 
march, 
tomorrow 
we 
vote.”
e 
ma rchers’ 
actions 
echoed 
t he 
tradition 
of 
each 
new 
generation 
of 
U.S. 
immigrants 
learning 
to 
wield 
in
fl
uence 
i
n 
el ectoral 
p olitics. 
H owever, 

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. Conviviendo con Mujeres Unidas y Activas: Passing the Time with MUA
  5. 2. Law, Politics, and the American Dream
  6. 3. Learning the Ropes: Stories of Motherhood and Citizenship
  7. 4. Autoestima y la Doble Misión del Grupo: Self-Esteem and the Dual Mission of the Group
  8. 5. Desahogandose y Aprendiendo a Hablar: Speaking Up and Speaking Out
  9. 6. Convivencia, Necesdades y Problemas: Vernaculars of Belonging and Coalition
  10. 7. Remaking Citizenship: Immigrants, Personhood, and Human Rights
  11. Appendix
  12. Notes
  13. References
  14. Index