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The immigrant rights movement : the battle over national citizenship / Walter J. Nicholls.

by Nicholls, Walter, author.

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Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]

Immigrants -- Civil rights -- United States.

Citizenship -- United States.

Social movements -- United States.

United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.

9781503609327 (paperback)

1503609324 (paperback)

xxii, 284 pages ; 23 cm

"In the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, liberal outcry over ethnonationalist views promoted a vision of America as a nation of immigrants. Given the pervasiveness of this rhetoric, it can be easy to overlook the fact that the immigrant rights movement began in the US relatively recently. This book tells the story of its grassroots origins, through its meteoric rise to the national stage. Starting in the 1990s, the immigrant rights movement slowly cohered over the demand for comprehensive federal reform of immigration policy. Activists called for a new framework of citizenship, arguing that immigrants deserved legal status based on their strong affiliation with American values. During the Obama administration, leaders were granted unprecedented political access and millions of dollars in support. The national spotlight, however, came with unforeseen consequences, including inequalities between factions and limits on what could be criticized and denounced. Such tradeoffs eventually shattered the united front and undermined the movement's ability to achieve protections for millions of undocumented immigrants. The Immigrant Rights Movement tells the story of a vibrant movement to change the meaning of national citizenship, that ultimately became enmeshed in the system that it sought to transform."--Back cover.

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