Open Hand, Closed Fist
Practices of Undocumented Organizing in a Hostile State
1st Edition
Published on 2. August 2022
304 pages
978-0-520-38443-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Kathryn Abrams is Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law at University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part One. An Unlikely Movement in an Unlikely Place
- Introduction
- 1. Confronting "Attrition through Enforcement
- Part Two. Building a Movement of Noncitizens: Formative Practices
- 2. Storytelling and Emotion Cultures in Undocumented Organizations
- 3. Performative Citizenship and the Adios Arpaio Campaign
- Part Three. Engaging the State: Self-Reliance and Opposition
- 4. The Oppositional Awakening of the "Undocumented and Unafraid
- 5. The Oppositional Citizenship of the Not1More Deportation Campaign
- Part Four. "America Woke Up in Arizona": Navigating the Trump Years and Beyond
- 6. The Asset Map of the Movement
- 7. La Lucha Sigue: Shifting Strategies and Building for a Post-Trump Future
- Methodological Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
