The 2006–2007 immigration mobilizations and community capacity: The experience of Chicago

Betancur, John J.; García, M.D.C. Díaz

doi:10.1057/lst.2011.3

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“…45 However, only a select group of organizations have the resources for this "grasstops" form of advocacy. Grasstops groups have a national profile (Betancur and Garcia 2011) and often are run by professional elites focused on policy advocacy (Ashar and Lai 2019). In contrast, hometown associations and other indigenous organizations in San Francisco and Fresno, for example, operate with mostly volunteer staff and largely focus their efforts on the needs of Mexican workers in their local communities.…”

Section: Transnational Immigrant Advocacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Scaling Migrant Worker Rights

Bada¹,

Gleeson²

2023

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International migrants’ home countries often play an integral part in protecting their citizens’ labor and human rights abroad. At the same time, institutions such as labor unions, worker centers, and legal aid groups are among the most visible actors holding governments of immigrant destinations accountable. Focusing on Mexico and the United States, Scaling Migrant Worker Rights analyzes how these organizations pressure governments to defend migrants. The result is a multilayered picture of the impediments to migrant worker rights and the possibilities for their realization.

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Section: Transnational Immigrant Advocacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Scaling Migrant Worker Rights

Bada¹,

Gleeson²

2023

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“…More than 100,000 marched in Chicago on March 10, 2006. The event is now seen as a watershed moment for Latino politics in the United States (Betancur and Garcia, 2011; Pallares and Flores-González, 2010). These protests and the failure to pass the DREAM Act in 2010 with a Democrat-controlled Congress and White House forced many activists to think about alternatives and, in the case of DESGUA, wonder whether political struggle in the United States was worthwhile.…”

Section: From Network To Platformsmentioning

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La red que crece: Platform Politics and Social Struggle in Neoliberal Guatemala

Sippert¹

2022

Latin American Perspectives

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Free-trade policies have opened the Guatemalan economy to international forces and sparked massive internal and international migration, creating new forms of social struggle produced by and engaging with these processes. A review of the 2008 advent of a grassroots organization in Western Highland Guatemala involved in binational United States–Guatemalan fair trade and migrant and solidarity organizing uses the concept of the platform instead of the network to highlight continuities and ruptures between past and present struggles. This perspective disrupts the vertical/horizontal dichotomy in social movement studies and sheds light on the effects of technological change on grassroots resistance to neoliberalism. Las políticas de libre comercio han abierto la economía guatemalteca a las pujanzas internacionales y provocado una migración masiva tanto interna como internacional, creando nuevas formas de lucha social producidas por y comprometidas con estos procesos. Este repaso del advenimiento, en 2008, de una organización de base en las Tierras Altas Occidentales de Guatemala involucrada en promover el comercio justo binacional entre Estados Unidos y Guatemala, así como la organización migrante y los nexos de solidaridad, utiliza el concepto de la plataforma en lugar de la red para resaltar las continuidades y rupturas entre luchas pasadas y presentes. Esta perspectiva irrumpe en la dicotomía vertical/horizontal subyacente a los estudios de movimientos sociales y nos brinda una perspectiva sobre los efectos del cambio tecnológico en las resistencias de base al neoliberalismo.

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“…In the United States, intense debates have arisen over whether to deport or legalize the some 12 million undocumented immigrants living here, including long‐time residents who immigrated as children, have become assimilated, and know little of their countries of origin. Over the past decade, there have been, on the one hand, record‐breaking marches in support of comprehensive immigration reform and, on the other, increased adoption of state and local measures designed to make the undocumented so unwelcome that they “self‐deport” (Betancur and Garcia ; Johnson and Hing ; Kobach ; Varsanyi , ). Students have been at the forefront of advocacy efforts, and, through marches, vigils, and hunger strikes, have been promoting passage of the federal DREAM Act, which would grant residency and, eventually, citizenship to qualifying undocumented college students (Abrego ; Gonzales ).…”

Section: “Daca‐mentation”mentioning

confidence: 99%

Technologies of truth in the anthropology of conflict: AES/APLA Presidential Address, 2013

Merry

Coutin

2014

American Ethnologist

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Science and technology studies can help to unveil invisible modes of power that are embedded in the ways conflicts are known, debated, and resolved. Legal forms of adjudication, reporting systems used by international commissions, and data gathering on the part of governmental and nongovernmental agencies shape how conflicts are fought out on the ground and in policy arenas. Assumptions about evidence, categorization, adjudication, and measurement privilege certain forms of suffering over others, even as they omit phenomena that defy categorization. Using two examples—a global survey of violence against women and a U.S. government initiative to defer the deportation of certain undocumented immigrants—we bring insights from science and technology studies to bear on sociolegal phenomena. In so doing, we highlight tensions between measurement and invention, visibility and invisibility, and objectivity and discretion that are intrinsic to new forms of governance. We thus examine what measurement initiates and precludes, the reactive and proactive nature of technologies, and how new practices reproduce established techniques.

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The 2006–2007 immigration mobilizations and community capacity: The experience of Chicago

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

Scaling Migrant Worker Rights

Scaling Migrant Worker Rights

La red que crece: Platform Politics and Social Struggle in Neoliberal Guatemala

Technologies of truth in the anthropology of conflict: AES/APLA Presidential Address, 2013

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