Challenging Histories of Racialization and Immigration Economics: An Analysis of the 2006 Immigrant Mega-Marchas and Arizona’s S.B. 1070

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2011
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Haverford College. Department of Political Science
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Throughout the history of the United States Congress has adopted immigration laws that have generally fallen into two categories: racial and economic. On the one hand, immigration law has historically attempted to impede the entrance of the poor and those who could not provide for themselves. On the other hand, immigration law has also attempted to impede the entrance of racial minorities. In this project, I trace the history of immigration law and its relation to the idea of nation-building (via the selection or construction of the ideal immigrant). I then analyze the immigrant rights marches of 2006 and present the argument that in 2006 non-citizen immigrants, who have no rights, were able to take the rights of citizens and protests (and ultimately defeat) an anti-immigrant bill. In taking these rights, rights of protest and political organizing, immigrants challenged the historical trends of immigration law.
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