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Documenting the Undocumented: Life Narratives of Unauthorized Immigrants
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 35, Number 3, Summer 2012
- pp. 449-471
- 10.1353/bio.2012.0040
- Article
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This essay argues that Underground America, a collection of fi rst-person narratives of undocumented immigrants, advances the premise that the immigrants it represents are already part of the US "nation," and that their claim to human rights ought therefore to be recognized on the grounds of national belonging.