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Political Possibilities: Lessons from the Undocumented Youth Movement for Resistance to the Trump Administration
Author(s) -
NegrónGonzales Genevieve
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12223
Subject(s) - resistance (ecology) , ethnography , politics , sociology , administration (probate law) , qualitative research , relevance (law) , movement (music) , gender studies , criminology , political science , social science , law , anthropology , aesthetics , ecology , biology , philosophy
Part‐reflection, part‐qualitative analysis, the author draws on ten years of qualitative and ethnographic research on undocumented young people in order to make sense of the political possibilities in this moment. I posit there is much to be learned from these undocumented young activists and their struggle as we consider how to respond to the Trump administration. In this article, I use my own background as an activist as an entry point and highlight three lessons from the undocumented youth movement using examples from my ethnographic fieldwork to illustrate these lessons. I then discuss the movement's relevance for possibilities of resistance in the age of Trump.