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David S. Meyer
I'm a professor of sociology and political science at the University of California, Irvine. I've been thinking, and writing about, protest politics for almost ever. This site offers comments on contemporary events, informed (I hope) by knowing something about history and about the academic study of social movements.
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Tag Archives: Dream
Who’s running the immigrant rights movement?
Lots of people. No one. In this regard, the immigrant rights movement isn’t very different from virtually every other social movement in recent American history. While I’ve been awed by the bravery and commitment of the DREAM 9, subjecting themselves … Continue reading
Resurrecting immigration reform and recalling the DREAMers
Only a small part of any comprehensive immigration reform proposal that the Senate considers will address the Dreamers, young people brought without papers to the United States as children, but the revival of immigration reform is directly attributable to their … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-immigrant, Charles Schumer, coming out, Dream, immigration, influence, Marco Rubio, outcomes, protest
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Celebrity politics: Eva Longoria and immigration
When Arizona adopted SB 1070, a bill that would mandate police investigation of people suspected of being in the country illegally, Eva Longoria announced the bill was unconstitutional. With MALDEF’s (Mexican American Legal Defense Fund) Executive Director Thomas A. Saenz, … Continue reading
A Recurrent DREAM (Social movement effects)
For the courageous young people who willingly disclosed their undocumented status last year, Congress’s failure to pass the DREAM Act was a devastating blow. They had an overly optimistic view, as activists often do, that the justice of their cause, … Continue reading
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Tagged business, Chamber of Commerce, coming out, Dream, movement outcomes, politics, tea party
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Still a Dream?
When we listen to the young people who have come forward about their undocumented legal status, we hear them express unvarnished optimism about the passage of the DREAM Act. (Listen, for example, to the testimony on NPR’s Talk of the … Continue reading
Coming Out and Movement Politics
An astonishing number of young men and women who came to the United States as children without government authorization are going public with their status. When they come out, they acknowledge that they are breaking the law and put themselves … Continue reading
