Immigrant Agency

Hmong American Movements and the Politics of Racialized Incorporation

Yang Sao Xiong (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

198 Seiten

2022
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2405-8 (ISBN)

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Through a sociological analysis of Hmong former refugees’ grassroots movements in the United States between the 1990s and 2000s, Immigrant Agency shows how Hmong, despite being one of America’s most economically impoverished ethnic groups, were able to make sustained claims on and have their interests represented in public policies. The author, Yang Sao Xiong argues that the key to understanding how immigrants incorporate themselves politically is to understand how they mobilize collective action and make choices in circumstances far from racially neutral. Immigrant groups, in response to political threats or opportunities or both, mobilize collective action and make strategic choices about how to position themselves vis-À-vis other minority groups, how to construct group identities, and how to deploy various tactics in order to engage with the U.S. political system and influence policy. In response to immigrants’ collective claims, the racial state engages in racialization which undermines immigrants’ political standing and perpetuates their marginalization.

YANG SAO XIONG is an assistant professor of anthropology and Asian American studies at California State University, Fresno. He teaches courses on social movements, race and ethnicity, Hmong American experiences, and immigrants and refugees.

List of Tables and Figures
List of Maps
List of Abbreviations
1 Immigrant Agency
2 History and Contexts of Exit
3 Campaign for Justice
4 Battle for Naturalization
5 Movement for Inclusion
6 Racialized Political Incorporation and Immigrant Rights
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.03.2022
Zusatzinfo	9 b&w illustrations, 11 tables
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	4 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-2405-X / 197882405X
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-2405-8 / 9781978824058
Zustand	Neuware