Golden state uprising: migrant protest in California, 1990–2010

Paret, Marcel; Aguilera, Guadalupe

doi:10.1080/13621025.2016.1158355

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“…Precarity may prohibit access to certain forms of political mobilisation, particularly formal legal channels, but prohibition necessitates other forms of mobilisation (Banki, 2013b). For example, collective resistance occurs in highly visible public actions such as protest (Paret & Aguilera, 2016) or less visible actions led by grassroots leaders such as boycotts (Chun, 2016). This feature makes precarity a particularly useful lens through which to understand the complexity of resettlement.…”

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Precarious resettlement at the Bui Dam, Ghana—Unmaking the teleological

Wilmsen

Adjartey

2020

Geographical Research

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One of the key challenges of constructing large‐scale water projects is determining how to manage social impacts such as the forced displacement and resettlement of the people in their path. Resettlement planners are tasked with the unenviable job of predicting these impacts and minimising their effects to enable the smooth completion of construction. The complexity of resettlement is reduced to a technical exercise carried out in accordance with international standards of best practice used by multilateral development banks and with the laws of national governments. Despite both the proliferation of these standards and legislation and the expansion of the resettlement industry, empirical research continues to demonstrate that resettlement causes impoverishment. Based on a qualitative study of three resettled villages at the Bui Dam resettlement in Ghana, this article highlights the political nature of resettlement. Using the concept of “precarity” we demonstrate how politics acts to render people moveable long before a project is conceived. Resettlement is shown to be a political tool that exposes and exacerbates existing precarity and becomes a site of struggle against the power of the state. By framing resettlement as an expression of politics rather than an exercise in management and containment, this article begins to uncover the flaws in technical planning processes and is a reminder that resettlement should be avoided wherever possible.

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Precarious resettlement at the Bui Dam, Ghana—Unmaking the teleological

Wilmsen

Adjartey

2020

Geographical Research

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“…Immigrant rights activism in the United States represents a prominent example. Recent organizing efforts began in the 1990s, but they exploded in 2006 when millions of foreign‐born residents took to the streets to oppose potential anti‐immigrant legislation (Paret & Aguilera, ; Voss & Bloemraad, ). While the immigrant rights movement in the United States, as elsewhere, centers on the demand for legal inclusion, notions of work are central.…”

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Citizenship and work in global capitalism: From domination to aspiration

Paret

2018

Sociology Compass

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The sociology of citizenship emerged during an exceptional period in which workers benefitted from economic growth and gains in productivity. Yet the field grew against the backdrop of a market-oriented global capitalism defined by high levels of precarious work, surplus labor, and economic insecurity. Tracing the evolution of global capitalism in the wake of World War II, and across the unequal regions of the world, I outline three different perspectives on the relationship between capitalism and work. These include an outdated and untenable perspective of citizenship as workplace product, a critical perspective of citizenship as worker domination, and an optimistic perspective of citizenship as aspiration and agency. The analysis suggests that citizenship represents an important terrain of struggle within global capitalism, simultaneously enabling patterns of domination and inspiring movements for liberation.

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“…The first major wave of collective migrant resistance in California centered on opposition to Proposition 187, a ballot initiative passed in 1994 but eventually struck down as unconstitutional, which sought to exclude undocumented migrants from public services and resources. Over time, however, migrant struggles shifted away from access to public resources and toward issues of legal status and immigration law enforcement (Paret and Aguilera, 2016). An early sign of the coming resistance was an annual Immigrant Pride Day in San Francisco during the late 1990s and early 2000s.…”

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Migration politics: Mobilizing against economic insecurity in the United States and South Africa

Paret

2017

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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From the mid-2000s, the United States and South Africa, respectively, experienced significant pro-migrant and anti-migrant mobilizations. Economically insecure groups played leading roles. Why did these groups emphasize politics of migration, and to what extent did the very different mobilizations reflect parallel underlying mechanisms? Drawing on 41 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 119 interviews with activists and residents, I argue that the mobilizations deployed two common strategies: symbolic group formation rooted in demands for recognition, and targeting the state as a key source of livelihood. These twin strategies encouraged economically insecure groups to emphasize national identities and, in turn, migration. Yet, they manifested in different types of mobilization due to the varying characteristics of the groups involved, and the different national imaginaries and organizing legacies they had to draw upon. The analysis demonstrates the capacity of economically insecure groups to make collective claims. It also shows that within the context of anti-migrant nationalism, economic insecurity amplifies the significance of national belonging, citizenship, and migration as important terrains of collective struggle.

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Golden state uprising: migrant protest in California, 1990–2010

Cited by 7 publications

References 17 publications

Precarious resettlement at the Bui Dam, Ghana—Unmaking the teleological

Precarious resettlement at the Bui Dam, Ghana—Unmaking the teleological

Citizenship and work in global capitalism: From domination to aspiration

Migration politics: Mobilizing against economic insecurity in the United States and South Africa

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