Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship

Contents

v Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Toward a Redefinition of Citizenship Rights 1 Rachel Ida Buff Part I: Narratives of Refuge and Resistance 23 1. On Being Here and Not Here: Noncitizen Status in American Immigration Law 26 John S. W. Park 2. Acts of Resistance in Asylum Seekers’ Persecution Narratives 40 Connie G. Oxford 3. Family, Unvalued: Sex and Security: A Short History of Exclusions 55 Scott Long, Jessica Stern, and Adam Francouer Primary Source: Boutilier v. Immigration Service, 1967 79 4. Beyond the Day without an Immigrant: Immigrant Communities Building a Sustainable Movement 94 Eunice Hyunhye Cho Primary Source: National Network on Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Statements of Support, Spring 2006 122 Appendix: Groups Endorsing the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 2006 134 Part II: Ambivalent Allies, Reluctant Rivals, and Disavowed Deviants 139 5. “Pale Face ’Fraid You Crowd Him Out”: Racializing “Indians” and “Indianizing” Chinese Immigrants 142 Dustin Tahmakera Primary Source: People v. Hall, 1854 156 vi Contents 6. A History of Black Immigration into the United States through the Lens of the African American Civil and Human Rights Struggle 159 The Africana Cultures and Policy Studies Institute: Zachery Williams, Robert Samuel Smith, Seneca Vaught, and Babacar M’Baye 7. Rescuing Elián: Gender and Race in Stories of Children’s Migration 179 Isabel Guzman Molina 8. The Rights of Respectability: Ambivalent Allies, Reluctant Rivals, and Disavowed Deviants 190 Lisa Marie Cacho Part III: Immigrant Acts 207 9. What Explains the Immigrant Rights Marches of 2006? Xenophobia and Organizing with Democracy Technology 209 Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Angelica Salas Primary Source: Shame of a Nation: A Documented Story of Police-State Terror against Mexican-Americans in the USA, 1954 Patricia Morgan 226 10. ¡Sí, Se Puede! Spaces for Immigrant Organizing 246 Christine Neumann-Ortiz 11. Immigrant Workers Take the Lead: A Militant Humility Transforms L.A. Koreatown 266 Glenn Omatsu Part IV: Questions of Democracy 283 12. Who Should Manage Immigration—Congress or the States? An Introduction to Constitutional Immigration Law 286 Victor C. Romero 13. The Undergraduate Railroad: Undocumented Immigrant Students and Public Universities 301 Rachel Ida Buff Contents vii 14. Our Immigrant Coreligionists: The National Catholic Welfare Conference as an Advocate for Immigrants in the 1920s 315 Jeanne Petit 15. Building Coalitions for Immigrant Power 329 Fred Tsao Primary Source: Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 2006 343 16. Their Liberties, Our Security 347 David Cole Primary Source: The Deportation Terror: A Weapon to Gag America, 1950 Abner Green 363 Part V: Afterwords 383 17. The Mexican-American War and Whitman’s “Song of Myself ”: A Foundational Borderline Fantasy 385 Donald Pease 18. Rights in a Transnational Era 402 Monisha Das Gupta About the Contributors 425 Index 433 ...