新作坊 Humanity Innovation and Social Practice

Remaking citizenship: latina immigrants and new american politics

摘要：

Through participation in MUA's educational forums, support groups, political lobbying and direct action on issues including domestic violence, public education, welfare rights, and immigration reform, Latinas combat isolation and fear by linking their personal empowerment to the cultural and political needs of the community. Careful not to essentialize Latinas' identities and responsibilities as mothers, Coll asserts that immigrant women's collective efforts to obtain material and social security for their children link the personal to the political, and form the basis of a practical and moral philosophy of human rights.