A Common Humanity Ritual Religion and Immigrant Advocacy in Tucson Arizona 1st Edition by Lane Van Ham 9780816501212 0816501211

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ISBN 10: 0816501211
ISBN 13: 9780816501212
Author: Lane Van Ham

As debate about immigration policy rages from small towns to state capitals, from coffee shops to Congress, would-be immigrants are dying in the desert along the US–Mexico border. Beginning in the 1990s, the US government effectively sealed off the most common border crossing routes. This had the unintended effect of forcing desperate people to seek new paths across open desert. At least 4,000 of them died between 1995 and 2009. While some Americans thought the dead had gotten what they deserved, other Americans organized humanitarian aid groups. A Common Humanity examines some of the most active aid organizations in Tucson, Arizona, which has become a hotbed of advocacy on behalf of undocumented immigrants.

This is the first book to examine immigrant aid groups from the inside. Author Lane Van Ham spent more than three years observing the groups and many hours in discussions and interviews. He is particularly interested in how immigrant advocates both uphold the legitimacy of the United States and maintain a broader view of its social responsibilities. By advocating for immigrants regardless of their documentation status, he suggests, advocates navigate the conflicting pulls of their own nation-state citizenship and broader obligations to their neighbors in a globalizing world. And although the advocacy organizations are not overtly religious, Van Ham finds that they do employ religious symbolism as part of their public rhetoric, arguing that immigrants are entitled to humane treatment based on universal human values.

Beautifully written and immensely engaging, A Common Humanity adds a valuable human dimension to the immigration debate.

A Common Humanity Ritual Religion and Immigrant Advocacy in Tucson Arizona 1st Table of contents:

1. Acknowledgments
2. CHAPTER ONE Migrant Deaths and Immigrant Advocacy in Southern Arizona
3. CHAPTER TWO Political Imagination in the United States
4. CHAPTER THREE US-Mexico Border Enforcement and the Emergence of Immigrant Advocacy in Tucson
5. CHAPTER FOUR Immigrant Advocacy in Tucson Responds to the Gatekeeper Complex
6. CHAPTER FIVE Individual Worldviews: Humanity, Nationality, and Ultimacy
7. CHAPTER SIX Collective Expression: Dramatizing the Crisis
8. CHAPTER SEVEN The El Tiradito Vigil
9. CHAPTER EIGHT Memorial Marches
10. CHAPTER NINE Ritual Transformation and Cosmopolitics in Tucson Immigrant Advocacy
11. Notes
12. Bibliography
13. Index
14. Back Matter

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