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Against the Deportation Terror: Organizing for Immigrant Rights in the Twentieth Century (Insubordinate Spaces)

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Despite being characterized as a “nation of immigrants,” the USA has seen a long history of immigrant rights struggles. In her timely book Against the Deportation Terror, Rachel Ida Buff uncovers this multiracial history. She traces the story of the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born (ACPFB) from its origins within the 1930s through repression throughout the early Cold War, to engagement with “new” Latinx and Caribbean immigrants within the 1970s and early 1980s.

Functioning as a hub connecting diverse foreign-born communities and racial justice advocates, the ACPFB responded to more than a few, ongoing crises of what they known as “the deportation terror.” Advocates worked against repression, discrimination, detention, and expulsion in migrant communities around the nation concurrently they supported reform of federal immigration policy. Prevailing in some cases and suffering defeats in others, the story of the ACPFB is characterized by persistence in multiracial organizing even throughout periods of protracted repression.

By tracing the work of the ACPFB and its allies over half a century, Against the Deportation Terror provides vital historical precedent for recent immigrant rights organizing. Its lessons continue to resonate these days.


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