[Commlist] New Book | Undocumented Storytellers: Narrating the Immigrant Rights Movement

New book, _Undocumented Storytellers: Narrating the Immigrant Rights 
Movement,_** is available now from Oxford University Press. *

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/undocumented-storytellers-9780190917166?cc=us&lang=en&;

/Undocumented Storytellers/ offers a critical exploration of the ways 
undocumented immigrants in the United States harness the power of 
storytelling to mitigate the fear and uncertainty of life without legal 
status and to advocate for immigration reform. Sarah C. Bishop draws 
from a mixed methodology of interviews with undocumented immigrants from 
eighteen unique nations of origin, critical-rhetorical ethnographies of 
immigrant rights events and protests, and narrative analysis of 
immigrant-produced digital media to chronicle the ways young activists 
uncover their lack of legal status experientially and make the decision 
to cultivate public voices. Providing an unparalleled view into the ways 
undocumented storytellers reframe their messages when stories have 
unintended consequences, Bishop offers broad insights into the role of 
strategic framing and autobiographical story-sharing in advocacy and 
social movements.

“Sarah Bishop has given us an illuminating book about storytelling--as 
testimony, as evidence, and as method--and the undocumented storytellers 
who find identity and power in their narratives.” --Mae Ngai, Columbia 
University

"/Undocumented Storytellers /is an incredibly important scholarly work 
that offers an insightful and incisive analysis of the role of narrative 
in the contemporary undocumented immigrant rights movement. For anyone 
who wants to understand the complicated connections between stories and 
activism or the details about the narrative strategy in this vibrant 
movement, /Undocumented Storytellers /is a must-read.” --Karma R. 
Chávez, University of Texas, Austin

“In the remarkable narratives woven throughout this book, we witness 
people speaking as a way to gain voice, cope, and survive injustice and 
oppression. Readers of /Undocumented Storytellers/ can respond to this 
era’s ‘alternative facts’ by learning how to listen so that we, too, can 
know ourselves and change the world for the better.” --Kent Ono, The 
University of Utah; First Vice President, National Communication Association

“With a keen sense of narrative detail, Sarah Bishop offers a powerful 
account of the lives of young immigrant activists. /Undocumented 
Storyteller/s is a compelling contribution to the study of contemporary 
migration in the United States.” --Radha S. Hegde,//New York University


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