Intersectionality as a multipurpose collective action frame: The case of the undocumented youth movement

Terriquez, Veronica; Brenes, Tizoc; Lopez, Abdiel

doi:10.1177/1468796817752558

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“…The goal of this article is to better understand the conflict between those who raised the Women's March as an exemplar of intersectional activism and those who depicted it as stoking divisions among women. It does so by examining the March's degree of success in using intersectionality as a collective action frame (Terriquez et al 2018). David Snow and his colleagues (Snow et al 2019, p. 395) explained that collective action frames "are relatively coherent sets of action-oriented beliefs and meanings that legitimize and inspire social movement campaigns and activities."…”

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Intersectionality at the grassroots

Heaney

2019

Politics, Groups, and Identities

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Intersectional activism is organizing that addresses more than one structure of oppression in the struggle for social justice. The rise of the Women's March as a massive effort to mobilize women primarily on the basis of gender coincided with calls for it to pay greater attention to intersectionality. This study considers the effectiveness of the Women's March at using intersectional activism as a collective action frame. Drawing on surveys conducted at Women's March events in five cities and four other Washington, DC activist events in 2018, this study examines the extent to which activists think that the movements should place a priority on intersectional activism. The results show that participants in Women's March events were more supportive of prioritizing intersectional activism than were activists at comparable protest events that were not mobilized using intersectional collective action frames. Furthermore, the results demonstrate that ideology may be a barrier to embracing intersectional activism, with more moderate and conservative activists placing a lower priority on intersectionality than did more liberal activists. Women's March activists were more likely to prioritize intersectional activism if they were trans-or LGBTQIA+-identified, or if they had a history of backing intersectionally marginalized causes, than if they did not.

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Intersectionality at the grassroots

Heaney

2019

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“…Scholarship needs to continue to examine intersectionality and the leadership roles of immigrant women of color, undocumented queer youth, and other immigrant groups with multiple marginalized identities that are often given less attention in the general social movements literature. Intersectionality has the potential to be used as a unifying space, to build solidarity and understanding between various marginalized groups, who share overlapping identities beyond immigration status (Terriquez, Brenes, & Lopez, ).…”

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Immigrant rights and social movements

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The disciplinary fields of immigration and social movements have largely developed as two distinct subareas of sociology. Scholars contend that immigrant rights, compared to other movements, have been given less attention in social movement research. Studies of immigrant-based movements in recent decades have reached a stage whereby we can now assess how immigrant movement scholarship informs the general social movement literature in several areas. In this article, we show the contributions of empirical studies of immigrant movements in four primary arenas of social movement scholarship: (a) emergence; (b) participation; (c) framing; and (d) outcomes. Contemporary immigrant struggles offer social movement scholarship opportunities to incorporate these campaigns and enhance current theories and concepts as earlier protest waves advanced studies of collective action.

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“…At the same time, a number of pre-existing social and economic divisions will need to be given heightened recognition to build enduring transnational coalitions across the lines of race, class, gender, and colonial status. The environmental justice movement against ecological racism (Bullard, 2005), the Cochabamba Climate Change conference (Bond, 2012), and the current mass mobilizations fostering intersectional alliances (Luna, 2016;Terriquez, Brenes, & Lopez, 2018) offer some of the most promising models to incorporate within the larger global climate justice movement. With global warming disproportionately harming billions of the world's poor and excluded by global capital, the climate justice movement cannot continue to be directed by relatively privileged strata in the global North or South.…”

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Climate justice and sustained transnational mobilization

Almeida

2019

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Samir Amin's final essay called for the creation of a new international organization of progressive social forces. Here I review evidence from twentyfirst century transnational movements germane for understanding the likelihood of the emergence of such an international organization and the issues and sectors most likely to facilitate coalitional unity. More specifically, the ecological crises identified by Amin in the form of global warming and climate change have created an unprecedented global environmental threat capable of unifying diverse social strata across the planet. The climate justice movement has already established a global infrastructure and template to coordinate a new international organization for confronting neoliberal forms of globalization. Pre-existing movement organizing around environmental racism, climate justice in the global South, and recent intersectional mobilizations serve as promising models for building an enduring international organization that will represent subaltern groups and have a substantial impact on world politics.

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Intersectionality as a multipurpose collective action frame: The case of the undocumented youth movement

Cited by 68 publications

References 23 publications

Intersectionality at the grassroots

Intersectionality at the grassroots

Immigrant rights and social movements

Climate justice and sustained transnational mobilization

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