Marcha!

Marcha surveys forces that have given shape and power to the contemporary immigrant rights movement in Chicago, a city with longstanding historic ties to immigrant activism. Positing Chicago as a microcosm of the immigrant rights movement, these essays plumb an extraordinarily rich set of data regarding recent immigrant rights activities, defining the cause as a panethnic, transnational movement.

Amalia Pallares is an associate professor of political science and Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of From Peasant Struggles to Indian Resistance: The Ecuadorian Andes in the Late Twentieth Century. Nilda Flores-Gonzalez is an associate professor of sociology and Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of School Kids, Street Kids: Identity Development in Latino Students.