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Latino Mobilization in New Immigrant Destinations: The Anti—H.R. 4437 Protest in Nebraska's Cities
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This paper used the 2006 immigrant-rights protests as a point of departure to test whether political opportunity structures aligned to spur widespread immigrant mobilization in new immigrant destinations, and found that the unifying effect of the anti-immigrant legislation on immigrant-ethnic communities nationally allowed immigrants and their leaders to seize the opportunities presented by shifting local politics, new communications technologies, and the growing migrant civil societies in new destinations to spur a widespread, if short-lived, mobilization.Abstract:
We use the 2006 immigrant-rights protests as a point of departure to test whether political opportunity structures aligned to spur widespread immigrant mobilization in new immigrant destinations. The existing immigrant mobilization scholarship would predict the absence of protest in areas of new migration because of their low levels of immigrant civic infrastructure. Through a detailed study of the immigrant-rights protests and their aftermath in Nebraska, we find that the unifying effect of the anti-immigrant legislation on immigrant-ethnic communities nationally allowed immigrants and their leaders to seize the opportunities presented by shifting local politics, new communications technologies, and the growing migrant civil societies in new destinations to spur widespread, if short-lived, mobilization.read more
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Mobilization, Participation, and Solidaridad: Latino Participation in the 2006 Immigration Protest Rallies
TL;DR: The authors test whether the movement was widespread among Latinos or limited to Mexican immigrants, as speculated by the media, or whether group solidarity can be credited with mobilizing participation and support of Latino citizens for a largely immigrant cause.
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The new immigration contestation: social movements and local immigration policy making in the United States, 2000-2011.
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TL;DR: The study finds that pro-immigrant protest events can influence policy in two ways, contributing both to the passage of pro- immigrant ordinances in the locality where protests occur and also inhibiting the passageof anti-immigrant ordinances in neighboring cities.
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Beyond the Ballot: Immigrant Collective Action in Gateways and New Destinations in the United States
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TL;DR: The authors studied the conditions under which immigrant organizing occurs in traditional gateways and new destinations and found that inclusionary contexts characterized by greater access to formal political and economic incorporation both hinder and facilitate immigrant organizing, while boundary markers, measured here as threats and segregation, tend to encourage immigrant protest.
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Social Protest and Policy Attitudes: The Case of the 2006 Immigrant Rallies
TL;DR: This paper examined the impact of the 2006 immigration protests on immigration policy preferences and found evidence that protest activity influences Latinos' immigration policy preference, but the effect of protest activity is not uniform across the population, but rather contingent on generational status and the intensity of protest activities at the local level.
New destinations of empire: Imperial migration from the Marshall Islands to Northwest Arkansas
TL;DR: The authors examines Marshall Islander migration to Arkansas as an outcome of an international agreement, the Compact of Free Association (COFA), between the U.S. and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), a former British colony.
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