Title Open hand, closed fist : practices of undocumented organizing in a hostile state / Kathryn Abrams

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 286 pages) Contents An unlikely movement in an unlikely place. Confronting "attrition through enforcement." -- Building a movement of noncitizens : formative practices. Storytelling and emotion cultures in undocumented organizations -- Performative citizenship and the Adios Arpaio campaign -- Engaging the state : self-reliance and opposition. The oppositional awakening of the "undocumented and unafraid" -- The oppositional citizenship of the Not1More deportation campaign -- "America woke up in Arizona" : navigating the Trump years and beyond. The asset map of the movement -- La lucha sigue : shifting strategies and building for a post-Trump future Summary "How does a group that lacks legal status organize its members to become effective political activists? In the early 2000s, Arizona's campaign of "attrition by enforcement" aimed to make life so miserable for undocumented immigrants that they would "self-deport." Undocumented activists resisted hostile legislation, registered thousands of new Latino voters, and joined a national movement to advance justice for immigrants. Drawing on five years of observation and interviews with activists in Phoenix, Arizona, Kathryn Abrams explains how the practices of storytelling, emotion cultures, and performative citizenship fueled this grassroots movement. Together these practices produced both the "open hand" (the affective bonds among participants) and the "closed fist" (the pragmatic strategies of resistance) that have allowed the movement to mobilize and sustain itself over time. "-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (EBSCOhost, viewed November 9, 2022) Subject Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects -- History -- 21st century Political activists -- Arizona -- History -- 21st century Immigrants -- Arizona -- History -- 21st century Emigration and immigration law -- History -- 21st century SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration. Emigration and immigration law Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects Immigrants Political activists Arizona Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2022006342 ISBN 9780520384439 0520384431

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