¡Marcha!: Latino Chicago and the Immigrant Rights Movement

Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest

by Amalia Pallares (Contributor), Frances R. Aparicio (Contributor), José Antonio Arellano (Contributor)

¡Marcha! is a multidisciplinary survey of the individuals, organizations, and institutions that have given shape and power to the contemporary immigrant rights movement in Chicago. A city with longstanding historic ties to immigrant activism, Chicago has been the scene of a precedent-setting immigrant rights mobilization in 2006 and subsequent mobilizations in 2007 and 2008. Positing Chicago as a microcosm of the immigrant rights movement on national level, these essays plumb an extraordinarily rich set of data regarding recent immigrant rights activities, defining the cause as not just a local quest for citizenship rights, but a panethnic, transnational movement. The result is a timely volume likely to provoke debate and advance the national conversation about immigration in innovative ways.

279 pages, Paperback

First published June 11, 2010

Reviews

[Greta Gilbertson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I knew very little about the immigrant mobilization a of 2006 so I found this book informative. Focus is on Chicago. Discusses tole of the Catholic Church, leadership, hometown organizations, role of second generation, among other topics. Some of the chapters are based on survey data collected by the authors.