![]() | Undocumented Migrants in the United States: Life Narratives and Self-representations Subjects: Area Studies; Global Development; Humanities; Language & Literature; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; Latin American & Hispanic Studies; Population & Development; U.S. Politics; History; Literature; International Relations; Regulatory Policy; Sociology & Social Policy; Migration & Diaspora; Immigration Policy; History: Theory Method & Historiography; Interdisciplinary Literary Studies; Literary Genres; Political Sociology; Race & Ethnic Studies; Social Policy; Whilst many undocumented migrants in the United States continue to exist in the shadows, since the turn of the millennium an increasing number have emerged within public debate, casting themselves against the dominant discursive trope of the "illegal alien," and entering the struggle over political self-representation. Drawing on a range of life narratives published from 2001 to 2016, this book explores how undocumented migrants have represented themselves in various narrative forms in the context of the DREAM Act and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) movement. Ina Batzke is Lecturer at the Chair of American Studies at Münster University, Germany, and Visiting Scholar at the Department of History at UC Santa Barbara, California, USA |
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