Border (In)Securities: Normative and Differential Belonging in LGBTQ and Immigrant Rights Discourse

Chávez, Karma R.

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“…Yet, social movements are themselves embedded in the broader politicaleconomic structures in which they operate, and tend to unevenly promote policy goals that are most resonant for the relatively advantaged cadres of the movement (Strolovitch 2008). Within the immigrant rights movement, these tensions are evident between what the mainstream 'inside the belt' organizations, and newer groups led often by immigrant youth and undocuqueer movement (Chavez 2010, Gleeson 2014.…”

Section: They Come Here To Workmentioning

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‘They come here to work’: an evaluation of the economic argument in favor of immigrant rights

Gleeson

2015

Citizenship Studies

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Advocates commonly highlight the exploitation that hard-working undocumented immigrants commonly suffer at the hands of employers, the important contribution they make to the US economy, and the fiscal folly of border militarization and enhanced immigration enforcement policies. In this paper, I unpack these economic rationales for expanding immigrant rights, and examine the nuanced ways in which advocates deploy this frame. To do so, I rely on statements issued by publicly present immigrant rights groups in six places: California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Texas, and Washington, DC. I also draw on interviews with immigrant advocates in San Jose, CA and Houston, TX, press releases from two alternative national immigrant rights organizations, and an ethnographic photo-documentation of immigrant rights mobilizations in 2012-2014. Economic rationales, I emphasize, can be found in each of these contexts, but are not mutually exclusive to other justifications, including narratives about civil, human, and family rights for immigrants. However, I argue that an economic framing of immigrant rights nonetheless runs the risk reifying work over conventional understandings of criminality, often relies on a narrow definition of economic worth, and could have negative consequences for coalition building. Advocates commonly highlight the exploitation that hard-working undocumented immigrants commonly suffer at the hands of employers, the important contribution they make to the US economy, and the fiscal folly of border militarization and enhanced immigration enforcement policies. In this paper, I unpack these economic rationales for expanding immigrant rights, and examine the nuanced ways in which advocates deploy this frame. To do so, I rely on statements issued by publicly present immigrant rights groups in six places: California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Texas, and Washington, DC. I also draw on interviews with immigrant advocates in San Jose, CA and Houston, TX, press releases from two alternative national immigrant rights organizations, and an ethnographic photo-documentation of immigrant rights mobilizations in 2012-2014. Economic rationales, I emphasize, can be found in each of these contexts, but are not mutually exclusive to other justifications, including narratives about civil, human, and family rights for immigrants. However, I argue that an economic framing of immigrant rights nonetheless runs the risk reifying work over conventional understandings of criminality, often relies on a narrow definition of economic worth, and could have negative consequences for coalition building.

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Section: They Come Here To Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘They come here to work’: an evaluation of the economic argument in favor of immigrant rights

Gleeson

2015

Citizenship Studies

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“…Furthermore, through frequent invocations of "we," visitors are not only interpellated into the subject position of the archaeologist but into "normative discourses of belonging" that rely on their distance and distinction from the culture represented within the museum. 55 The final stops at the outdoor kitchen and garden only reinforce this distance, Citizen Archaeology 20 presenting forms of subsistence still utilized in regions of the world as "what people did before there were grocery stores. "…”

Section: Citizen Archaeology 17mentioning

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Unearthing the Native Past: Citizen Archaeology and Modern (Non)Belonging at the Pueblo Grande Museum

Chevrette

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2015

Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies

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“…Feelings and emotions are, however, relatively invisible in this scholarship. While certain American organizations which campaigned to have partner migration extended to queer couples did so from within a discourse of romantic love (Chávez 2010; Human Rights Watch/Immigration Equality 2006), queer migration scholarship does not analyze or discuss love or other emotions to any great extent. The literature also tends to concentrate on subjects from the global south migrating to the global north (exceptions are Collins 2009;Luibhéid 1999;Simmons 2008;White 2010White , 2013aWhite , 2013bWhite , 2014, rendering other types of migration trajectories invisible.…”

Section: Queer Migrationmentioning

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“…Other literature examining queer partner migration I want to mention includes Audrey Yue's (2008) study of the development of Australian same-sex migration policy; Jon Binnie's (1997) discussion on sexual citizenship in Europe; Karma R. Chávez (2010) analysis of a report by American LGBT organizations on bi-national same-sex couples excluded by American immigration laws, which constructs this exclusion as a concern only because American, white, middleclass citizens' rights are violated by the laws; Eric Fassin and Manuela Salcedo's (2015) analysis of the definition of gay identity in relation to partner migration and asylum and refugee policies specifically, but also more broadly as a transnational process of identification; S. Iimay Ho and Megan E. Rolfe's (2011) comparison of Australian, Israeli, and American migration policies as they pertain to queer partner migration; and Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo and Carl L. Bankston's (2010) study of the close connection between the American controversies over migration policy in general and genderneutral marriage.…”

Section: 'Same-sex Migration'; or Queer Partner Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This literature asks questions about who may or may not cross what national borders, for what reasons, and in relation to whom borders can or cannot be crossed. Again, the majority of this scholarship tends to focus on a (North) American context (Chávez 2010;Bailey 2004;Cantú 2009;Cantú et al 2005;Dueñas 2000;Epps 2005;Fairbairn 2005;Garland 2009;LaViolette 2004;Lorenz 2005;Luibhéid 1998Luibhéid , 2002Luibhéid , 2004Luibhéid , 2008Luibhéid & Cantú 2005;Miller 2005;Randazzo 2005;Reddy 2005;White 2010White , 2013aWhite , 2013bWhite , 2014.…”

Section: Queer Migration and The Nation-statementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Feeling of Migration : Narratives of Queer Intimacies and Partner Migration

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Border (In)Securities: Normative and Differential Belonging in LGBTQ and Immigrant Rights Discourse

Cited by 55 publications

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‘They come here to work’: an evaluation of the economic argument in favor of immigrant rights

‘They come here to work’: an evaluation of the economic argument in favor of immigrant rights

Unearthing the Native Past: Citizen Archaeology and Modern (Non)Belonging at the Pueblo Grande Museum

The Feeling of Migration : Narratives of Queer Intimacies and Partner Migration

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