... immigration policy higher education undocumented youth undocumented families ...

... illustrates how border militarization policies meant to target adult migrants also indelibly affect undocumented adult children. The chapter also demonstrates a key aspect of undocumented education: that migrant families learn about immigration policy through lived experience. immigration policy higher...

... Eithne Luibhéid’s “Looking Like a Lesbian” exemplifies how border crossings at US-Mexico ports of entry consolidate heteronormative identities. Using a Foucauldian framework, Luibhéid examines how notions of gender and sexuality came to shape both immigration policy and practices by officials...

... law) to instead consider the ways in which war, emigration, immigration policies, family separations, silences, and deportation dismember bodies, lives, families, and nations. The chapter treats dis/memberment not only as a form of breaking apart but also as the denial of membership and the erasure...

... of Cuban citizens to migrate to the United States. The mass exodus of Cubans had a profound impact on immigration policies and ultimately resulted in the criminalization and long-term incarceration of immigrants from the Caribbean. This chapter reveals how, for Black and Brown immigrants, the promise...

... notions of gender and sexuality came to shape both immigration policy and practices by officials of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Moreover she highlights the historical experiences of lesbians in order to disrupt the heteronormative logics and gendered expectations shaping these processes...

... The chapter highlights the intersections between education and activism among undocumented students. Specifically, it illustrates how undocumented students take it upon themselves to learn about education and immigration policies so they , in turn, can teach others. Though not as visible...

... The chapter chronicles the shift students made from building on political gains to defensive actions against anti-immigrant policies during the first year of the Trump administration. Students in the group Providing Opportunities, Dreams, and Education in Riverside (PODER) had the political...

..., to smug confirmations of US superiority, to romanticized folklores of resistance in corridos and related forms, to studies on health and immigration policy, questions about who, what, and which language—English, Spanish, Yoeme, or even Q’anjob’al—represent the border remain pertinent. The Border Reader...

... a gesture of care toward their own parents, but the forging of an ethic of radical migrant mental health–one that both destigmatizes the effects of trauma and critiques the conditions that produce it. The texts examined here thus illuminate the need for immigration policy that accounts for the traumas...

... mainstream American media normalizes the political mobilization of this form of gender violence toward anti-immigrant discourses and policies of exclusion in the United States and Europe. The unexamined good of “public health” measures like Operation Limelight at British and American airports neutralize...

... This chapter examines the US military government’s focus on home economics, nutrition, mothering, and child care: these domestic projects included families of all races while also constructing the “secure” American family home over and against Asian immigrant family practices that did not meet...

...-Lebanese community and archival research in its institutions in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, since 2009. performative arabness ethnicity community kaleidoscopic identities immigrant This chapter critically maps policies to confront mass incarceration in the city of Rio de Janeiro, focusing...

.... The chapter shows how mainstream American media normalizes the political mobilization of this form of gender violence toward anti-immigrant discourses and policies of exclusion in the United States and Europe. The unexamined good of “public health” measures like Operation Limelight at British and American...

... nationality, due to poor documentation of births, government policy and practice, and intentional discrimination. Migrants in the Americas are particularly at risk. Many persons who are entitled to citizenship cannot prove it, or proof is disregarded by officials. Citizenship status, in turn, determines...

... and application of citizenship policy during recent decades. The chapter examines the concept of ivoirité and has particular relevance for the study of the implementation of regulations pertaining to documentation and proof of identity. It discusses the laws of ivoirité and how they challenged the prevailing...

... posthumanism This essay discusses Mama & Me , a mixed-media artwork by an ftm-identified Hong Kong immigrant, Bobby Cheung, as a trans of color critique of the normativizing discourses of U.S.-based transgender politics. Drawing on the history of Asian immigration and diaspora studies, this essay...

... import quotas. In the following informal address, from November 1985, given several months after the government decree (21060) that offcially launched the neoliberal regime in Bolivia, Sánchez de Lozada laid out the government’s rationale for what it called the New Economic Policy. It is notable...

... political contexts. In particular, the author examines the ways in which certain aspects of subcultural “selection” at these nightclubs (especially around race and gender) bear an uncanny resemblance to national and European debates regarding immigration and multiculturalism. Drawing on examples...