| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 219 pages) |
| Contents |
Migrant deaths and immigrant advocacy in southern Arizona -- Interstice: Annie, during a Samaritan patrol, 2005 -- Political imagination in the United States -- Interstice: an undated memo during fieldwork -- US-Mexico border enforcement and the emergence of immigrant advocacy in Tucson -- Interstice : field notes from the NMD Maricopa station, 2006 -- Immigrant advocacy in Tucson responds to the gatekeeper complex -- Interstice : notes from a Derechos Humanos meeting, 2005 -- Individual worldviews : humanity, nationality, and ultimacy -- Collective expression: dramatizing the crisis -- The El Tiradito vigil -- Memorial marches -- Interstice : memo on a Samaritans trip, 2004 -- Ritual transformation and cosmopolitics in Tucson immigrant advocacy |
| Summary |
This is the first book to examine immigrant aid groups from the inside. Author Lane Van Ham spent more than three years observing the groups and many hours in discussions and interviews. He is particularly interested in how immigrant advocates both uphold the legitimacy of the United States and maintain a broader view of its social responsibilities. By advocating for immigrants regardless of their documentation status, he suggests, advocates navigate the conflicting pulls of their own nation-state citizenship and broader obligations to their neighbors in a globalizing world. And although the advocacy organizations are not overtly religious, Van Ham finds that they do employ religious symbolism as part of their public rhetoric, arguing that immigrants are entitled to humane treatment based on universal human values. Beautifully written and immensely engaging, A Common Humanity adds a valuable human dimension to the immigration debate |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
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Foreign workers -- Arizona
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Latin Americans -- Employment -- Arizona
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
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Foreign workers
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Latin Americans -- Employment
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Manners and customs
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| SUBJECT |
Latin America -- Social life and customs
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| Subject |
Arizona
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Latin America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816501212 |
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0816501211 |
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