Against the deportation terror : organizing for immigrant rights in the twentieth century / Rachel Ida Buff.
2018
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Against the deportation terror : organizing for immigrant rights in the twentieth century / Rachel Ida Buff.
Imprint
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2018.
Copyright
©2018.
Description
286 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Series
Insubordinate spaces.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: the subaltern past of immigrant rights
Aliens, refugees, citizens: the American Committee for the Protection of the foreign born, 1933-1959
Becoming alien: the march inland blows up the Cold War space-time continuum
Ports of entry, exclusion, and removal: "alien" seamen
Counterinsurgencies: global militarism and immigrant rights in Los Angeles
"Creating dangerously": foreign-born writers and crimes of persuasion
The Names of the Lost: Cold War deportation cases in the mass media
Repurposing immigrant rights advocacy, 1959-1982
Conclusion: the subaltern futures of immigrant rights.
Aliens, refugees, citizens: the American Committee for the Protection of the foreign born, 1933-1959
Becoming alien: the march inland blows up the Cold War space-time continuum
Ports of entry, exclusion, and removal: "alien" seamen
Counterinsurgencies: global militarism and immigrant rights in Los Angeles
"Creating dangerously": foreign-born writers and crimes of persuasion
The Names of the Lost: Cold War deportation cases in the mass media
Repurposing immigrant rights advocacy, 1959-1982
Conclusion: the subaltern futures of immigrant rights.
Summary
Despite being characterized as a "nation of immigrants," the United States has seen a long history of immigrant rights struggles. In her timely book Against the Deportation Terror, Rachel Ida Buff uncovers this multiracial history. She traces the story of the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born (ACPFB) from its origins in the 1930s through repression during the early Cold War, to engagement with "new" Latino and Caribbean immigrants in the 1970s and early 1980s. Functioning as a hub connecting diverse foreign-born communities and racial justice advocates, the ACPFB responded to various, ongoing crises of what they called "the deportation terror." Advocates worked against repression, discrimination, detention, and expulsion in migrant communities across the nation at the same time as they supported reform of federal immigration policy. Prevailing in some cases and suffering defeats in others, the story of the ACPFB is characterized by persistence in multiracial organizing even during periods of protracted repression. By tracing the work of the ACPFB and its allies over half a century, Against the Deportation Terror provides important historical precedent for contemporary immigrant rights organizing. Its lessons continue to resonate today.
Note
Despite being characterized as a "nation of immigrants," the United States has seen a long history of immigrant rights struggles. In her timely book Against the Deportation Terror, Rachel Ida Buff uncovers this multiracial history. She traces the story of the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born (ACPFB) from its origins in the 1930s through repression during the early Cold War, to engagement with "new" Latino and Caribbean immigrants in the 1970s and early 1980s. Functioning as a hub connecting diverse foreign-born communities and racial justice advocates, the ACPFB responded to various, ongoing crises of what they called "the deportation terror." Advocates worked against repression, discrimination, detention, and expulsion in migrant communities across the nation at the same time as they supported reform of federal immigration policy. Prevailing in some cases and suffering defeats in others, the story of the ACPFB is characterized by persistence in multiracial organizing even during periods of protracted repression. By tracing the work of the ACPFB and its allies over half a century, Against the Deportation Terror provides important historical precedent for contemporary immigrant rights organizing. Its lessons continue to resonate today.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-276) and index.
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Available in Other Form
Online version: Buff, Rachel, 1961- Against the deportation terror. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2017
Call Number
KF4819 .B82 2018
Language
English
ISBN
9781439915349 (paperback alkaline paper)
1439915342 (paperback alkaline paper)
9781439915332 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1439915334 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9781439915356
1439915350
1439915342 (paperback alkaline paper)
9781439915332 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1439915334 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9781439915356
1439915350
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