“IMMIGRANT RIGHTS IN THE SHADOWS OF CITIZENSHIP” – Milwaukee

11/17 Mon 7 pm Talk : “IMMIGRANT RIGHTS IN THE SHADOWS OF CITIZENSHIP” – Milwaukee. Harry Schwartz Bookstore, 2559 N. Downer Ave.  Presentation by book editor Rachel Ida Buff, UWM, and contributor Christine Neumann-Ortiz, Executive Director of Voces de la Frontera.  Punctuated by marches across the United States in the spring of 2006, immigrant rights has re-emerged as a significant and highly visible political issue.  Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of U.S. Citizenship  brings prominent activists and scholars together  to examine the emergence and significance of the contemporary immigrant rights movement.  Contributors place the contemporary immigrant rights movement in historical and comparative contexts by looking at the ways immigrants and their allies have staked claims to rights in the past, and by examining movements based in different communities around the United States.  Scholars explain the evolution of immigration policy, and analyze current conflicts around issues of immigrant rights; activists engaged in the current movement document the ways in which coalitions have been built around immigrants from different nations, and between immigrant and native- born peoples. Throughout, the essays examine the ways in which questions of immigrant rights engage broader issues of identity, including gender, race, and sexuality. Profits from sales of books will benefit Voces de la Frontera. Contact:  Voces de la Frontera at dave@vocesdelafrontera.ccsend.com