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Raza sí, migra no [electronic resource] : Chicano movement struggles for immigrant rights in San Diego / Jimmy Patiño.

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"As immigration from Mexico to the United States grew through the 1970s and 1980s, the Border Patrol, police, and other state agents exerted increasing violence against ethnic Mexicans in San Diego's volatile border region. In response, many San Diego activists rallied around the leadershi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via HeinOnline)
Full Text (via HeinOnline) Civil Rights and Social Justice
Main Author: Patiño, Jimmy (Author)
Other title:Chicano movement struggles for immigrant rights in San Diego.
HeinOnline immigration law & policy in the U.S.
HeinOnline UNC Press law publications.
HeinOnline civil rights and social justice.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Series:Justice, power, and politics.
Subjects:
Chicano movement > California > San Diego > History > 20th century.
Mexican Americans > California > San Diego > History > 20th century.
Mexican Americans > Ethnic identity > History > 20th century.
Noncitizens > Mexico.
Illegal immigration > Mexico.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: We gotta get on this immigration issue
  • The Mexican American Left and Early Struggles Against the Deportation Regime, 1924-1968. Historical rights in the territory : struggles for Mexican immigrant rights from el Congreso to la Hermandad
  • The Chicano Movement Confronts the Immigration Question, 1968-1976. He had a uniform and authority : border patrol violence, women's agency, and Chicano/Mexicano resistance
  • For those families who are deported and have no place to land : building CASA Justicia
  • The first time I met César Chávez, I got into an argument with him : California employer sanctions and Chicano debates over undocumented workers
  • Delivering the Mexicano vote : immigration and the La Raza Unida party
  • The sheriff must be obsessed with racism! : the Committee on Chicano Rights battles police violence
  • A Chicano/Mexicano Movement : Power Concedes Nothing Without Demand, 1977-1986. Who's the illegal alien pilgrim? : the Carter Curtain, the KKK, and Chicano unity march
  • Abolishment of the INS/Border Patrol : the Chicano National Immigration Conference and Tribunal
  • Conclusion: The long walk for rights.

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