Undocumented Latinos and Asians have banded together to fight deportation, immigration enforcement, and ongoing state efforts to discredit undocumented immigrants. A. How have they done so? B. How have they utilized intersectionality to better organize collective responses to unfair immigration laws? *Please have response include engagement with terms “migrant illegality,” “undocuqueer,” and “identity mobilization.”
The image that has historically been associated with illegal migrants is one that treats migrant communities as monolithic wholes. This is not just true for the anti-immigration lobby, but also for the ones that have challenged the idea of migrant illegality from a rights based perspective. However, migrant groups are seldom homogenous and within migrant communities, there are differences based on class, gender and sexuality. The paradox of the twenty-first century activism is to accommodate this diversity within migrant communities and at the same time, forge solidarities across different immigrant groups. It is this contradiction that is actively being engaged through anti-deportation politics in the US, where Latino and Asian undocumented migrant solidarity is being forged from the vantage point of intersectional activism.
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