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The DREAMers : how the undocumented youth movement transformed the immigrant rights debate / Walter J. Nicholls.

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"On May 17, 2010, four undocumented students occupied the Arizona office of Senator John McCain. Across the country a flurry of occupations, hunger strikes, demonstrations, and marches followed, calling for support of the DREAM Act that would allow these young people the legal right to stay in...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Nicholls, Walter (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, ©2013.
Subjects:
Immigrant youth > Political activity > United States.
Immigrant youth > Civil rights > United States.
Immigrants > Civil rights > United States.
Youth protest movements > United States.
Noncitizens > Political activity > United States.
Noncitizens > Political activity.
Illegal immigration > United States.
Illegal immigration.
Immigrants > Civil rights.
Youth protest movements.
United States.
Undocumented immigrants.
Table of Contents:
  • The voice and power of undocumented youths, an unlikely story
  • Finding political openings in a hostile country
  • The birth of the DREAMer
  • Taking a stand
  • Rebirth from the grassroots up
  • Undocumented, unafraid, unapologetic
  • DREAMers and the immigrant rights movement
  • Dreaming through the nation-state.

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