A Dream Detained: Undocumented Latino Youth and the DREAM Movement

Zimmerman, Arely M.

doi:10.1080/10714839.2011.11722133

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“…Scholars show there was a significant emphasis among undocumented youth activists in the United States on education (Negrón-Gonzalez 2014; Burciaga and Martinez 2017). Imagery of undocumented youth in caps and gowns were prominent symbols in US protests (Zimmerman 2016), and demonstrators frequently chanted "education not deportation" (Schweirtz 2016). Nicholls (2013) suggests that DREAMers adopted a master frame characterizing themselves according to three main themes to gain support.…”

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Who Gets to Have a DREAM? Examining Public Support for Immigration Reform

Wallace

2019

International Migration Review

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This article assesses how different notions of citizenship shape mass attitudes toward immigration reform. We examine the underpinnings of the military service and college education provisions that were at the center of the 2010 DREAM Act, which sought to provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrant youth in the United States. Employing a survey experiment on a nationally representative US sample, we unpack the extent to which the mass public is willing to support immigration reform based on criteria tied to undocumented immigrants’ educational attainment or enlistment in the armed forces. While education has little effect on its own, military service significantly increases public support for a pathway to citizenship. The positive effect of military service endures when it is paired with less popular provisions, suggesting that a military criterion can serve as a basis of support for broader immigration legislation. Moreover, the effects are strongest for those groups who are traditionally viewed as being most opposed to immigration reforms that expand access to citizenship. The results of this study have implications for public attitudes toward immigration, the persistence of the citizen-soldier ideal, and the importance of framing in the policy-making process.

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Section: Putting the Dream Act And Dreamers In Perspectivementioning

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Who Gets to Have a DREAM? Examining Public Support for Immigration Reform

Wallace

2019

International Migration Review

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“…Based on this initial conceptual framework, we can identify the need to explore the question of how ethnic public relations intersects with the use of public relations for advocacy and/or activism, especially in the context of recent movements such as Black Lives Matter (Demby, 2014) and the Dreamers (Zimmerman, 2011), to name just a couple. In exploring this question through an initial analysis of existing research and ethnic public relations cases, we seek to expand on the work of Johnson and Sink (2013), and continue to build our field’s understanding of ethnic public relations.…”

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The role of public relations in ethnic advocacy and activism: A proposed research agenda

Moya

Bravo

2016

Public Relations Inquiry

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This essay proposes a research agenda for exploring public relations’ role in ethnic advocacy and activism, as a way to build the field’s knowledge of ethnic public relations. To highlight the potential contribution of public relations to ethnic organizations, and to describe the particular challenges that ethnic public relations faces in societies that sometimes marginalize ethnic groups and issues, this article describes two advocacy efforts by Latino-serving organizations, one in favor of immigration reform and the other in response to the offensive statements against Mexican immigrants stated by politician and entrepreneur Donald Trump. Additionally, the authors propose a research agenda for exploring how public relations is used by ethnic organizations to advance their goals.

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“…Latter facets of the movement, frustrated with how national immigrant rights organizations were handling the campaign, as well as the inability of Congress to pass the DREAM Act, decided to shift strategies and break with traditional supporters (Vélez et al, 2008). By 2010 the DREAMers had moved beyond the narrative of respectability toward one of resistance, prioritizing grassroots organizing and implementing methods of direct action, such as sit-ins, coming out rallies, and pilgrimages as a means to increase awareness about the plight of undocumented youth and encourage the passing of the DREAM Act (Corrunker, 2012;Villarrubia-Mendoza and Vélez-Vélez, 2017;Zimmerman, 2011). Within those means of engagement, art occupied a significant place in their repertoires of representation of the DREAMer.…”

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“…DREAMers' art was used strategically in the articulation of narratives to carve the identity of the movement and convey a message of advancement across a bilingual audience (Hart, 2015;Hernandez Arriaga, 2012;Manuel et al, 2012). As storytelling and narration became an important part of producing cultural (and political) material that would serve them in reaching out to audiences, art provided a platform to convey such stories, engage in the discussion, as well as produce new representations of self (Hernandez Arriaga, 2012;Zimmerman, 2011). The visual articulations that accompany the DREAMers reflect the complex interplay of constructing identity and representation and the way it affected the narratives, strategies, and scope of a social movement (Morrison and Isaac, 2012;Villarrubia-Mendoza and Vélez-Vélez, 2017).…”

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Interpreting mobilization dynamics through art: A look at the DREAMers Movement

Vélez-Vélez

Villarrubia-Mendoza

2018

Current Sociology

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Most research on art and social movements focuses on the representational aspect of art, leaving untouched how artwork informs audiences and actors on the mobilization dynamics permeating the field of action. In this article the authors contend that the analysis of art in social movements should pursue the ways in which collective actors place art as part of their interpretative lens to act upon changing social conditions. The article’s analysis of art around the DREAMers Movement suggests that artwork allows for movement actors to change the limits of their cultural context and affect the repertoires of articulations conceived within that context. This analysis moves beyond the notions of art as representation and presents art as a field to challenge the forms and dynamics of mobilization.

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A Dream Detained: Undocumented Latino Youth and the DREAM Movement

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Who Gets to Have a DREAM? Examining Public Support for Immigration Reform

Who Gets to Have a DREAM? Examining Public Support for Immigration Reform

The role of public relations in ethnic advocacy and activism: A proposed research agenda

Interpreting mobilization dynamics through art: A look at the DREAMers Movement

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