Book description
The widely recognized "Dreamer narrative" celebrates the educational and economic achievements of undocumented youth to justify a path to citizenship. While a well-intentioned, strategic tactic to garner political support of undocumented youth, it has promoted the idea that access to citizenship and rights should be granted only to a selectâŚ
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Why read it?
1 author picked We Are Not Dreamers as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved this anthology of writing by undocumented scholars for its disruption of the âdreamerâ narrative so popular in mainstream arguments for the rights and potential of immigrant youth.
Reading the essays in this edited volume, I was struck by the many ways this meritocratic narrative denies the nuances that define the everyday lives of undocumented people, privileging one specific picture of the âdeservingâ immigrant who should receive legal status and human rights.
I appreciate the diverse perspectives includedâparticularly those often excluded from this picture of deservingnessâfor example, Black, queer, trans, and criminalized migrants, as well as older people, parents,âŚ
From Sarah's list on challenge the âgood immigrant/bad immigrantâ binary.
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