Finding the Path: A Comparison of Approaches to Philadelphia's Immigration Reform Movement
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2014
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology
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The United States is currently in the midst of a debate over changing immigration policy.
After providing some small historical examples of civil disobedience from other
movements (the Woman's Suffrage Movement, the Black Civil Rights Movement, and the
Gay Rights Movement) for comparative purposes, this thesis examines efforts of
immigration reform activists in the Philadelphia, P A area to organize for support of the
Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013,
and to increase social acceptance of undocumented immigrants in the US. in spite of a
largely anti-immigrant bias found in most of the country's mainstream media coverage.
The aim of this work is to identify and contextualize within a broader history of activism
the differing strategies of engagement in use by current immigration reform activists.