Framing the Immigrant Movement as about Rights, Family, or Economics: Which Appeals Resonate and for Whom?
Thursday 25 September, 2014
6 - 8pm, $0
Barnard Center for Research on Women
3009 Broadway, 101 Barnard Hall (Floor 3)
This presentation examines the principal narratives employed by the immigrant rights movements in the United States, how these resonate with different sector of the public, and the challenge posed by the fact that narrative frameworks that appeal to some groupsfor example, liberals or conservativesoften alienate others. Irene Bloemraad is an associate professor of sociology and Thomas Garden Barnes Chair of Canadian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada (2006).