Doctoral Dissertation Research: Rights Mobilization, Citizenship and Identity

权利动员文献表明，伤害的高风险通常会抑制社会运动的积极性，但这似乎并不是无证青年谁动员社会变革的情况。为了从理论上理解是什么让这些年轻人组织起来，尽管他们面临的威胁，本研究探讨了无证亚洲和拉丁美洲/O青年倡导移民改革的社会运动积极性。法律的动员的理论模型提出和测试的基础上收集的数据，从深度访谈和参与观察的三个社区为基础的组织在为期两年的时间。国家在移民和移民权利方面的最新事态发展表明，需要了解边缘化人口成员中法律的动员的内部运作，以及这种行动与处境类似群体成员中对动员的传统理解有何关系。

The rights mobilization literature suggests that a high risk of harm generally inhibits social movement activism, yet this does not appear to be the case for undocumented youth who have mobilized for social change. To understand theoretically what has allowed these youth to organize despite the threats they confront, this research explores the social movement activism of undocumented Asian and Latina/o youth advocating for immigration reform. A theoretic model of legal mobilization is proposed and tested based on data gathered from in-depth interviews and participant observation of three community-based organizations over a period of two years. Recent developments in the national landscape regarding immigration and immigrant rights point to the need for an understanding of the inner workings of legal mobilization among members of marginalized populations, and how such activism does or does not relate to conventional understandings of mobilization among members of similarly situated groups.