Keywords
undocumented migration
criminalization
political participation
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Abstract
Based on ethnographic research in the Los Angeles area and interviews with Zapotec migrants, the author analyzes what it was that made it possible in spring 2006 for these migrants to come out to demonstrate
en masse. This empirical material is analyzed using Nancy Fraser’s theoretical reflections about the public space, and the author argues that the mobilization was possible thanks to the opening up of many “subordinate counter-publics” where public opinion, solidarity, and collective identity were produced. This made it possible for the moral indignation sparked by the bill to turn into an unprecedented collective mobilization.
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