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Demanding to Be Seen and Heard: Latino Immigrant Organizing and the Defense of Human Rights in Houston
Author(s) -
KOVIC CHRISTINE
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1111/ciso.12032
Subject(s) - criminalization , immigration , human rights , political science , context (archaeology) , criminology , enforcement , law , economic justice , ethnic group , immigration reform , sociology , immigration law , geography , archaeology
Latino migrants in Houston mobilize in myriad ways to defend their rights in the current context of increased enforcement and restrictive laws. Through an exploration of the mobilization strategies of L iving H ope W heelchair A ssociation, an organization of L atino migrants with spinal cord injuries, this article considers the ways this organization reframes migration as an issue of human rights and social justice rather than one of criminalization. It explores L iving H ope's demands for rights as its members are excluded from the nation and the city based on immigration status, ethnicity, and physical disability as well as the ways the association's claims for rights addresses the profoundly unequal relationships between the U nited S tates and L atin A merican nations.