Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States

By: Monisha Das Gupta

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Synopsis: Gupta explores the innovative strategies that South Asian feminist, queer, and labor organizations in the United States have developed to assert claims for immigrants without the privileges or security of citizenship. These organizations provoke us to question the near-monopoly of citizenship on rights. The organizations' members claim rights as immigrants, not citizens, in order to challenge the various forms of exploitation unleashed in this current phase of globalization. In keeping with their realities as stretched across borders, these immigrants construct what I call "a transnational complex of rights," in which rights are mobile rather than rooted in national membership."

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 316 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780822388173
Publisher:: Duke University Press
Date of Addition:: 11/01/13
Copyrighted By:: Duke University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.

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