Comments on: “No One is Illegal,” most recent radio program from the show “Making Contact.” http://meredith-martin.com/blog/no-one-is-illegal-most-recent-radio-program-from-the-show-making-contact/ A blog exploring the intersection of social justice, human rights based education, and folklife studies. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:11:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Rachel Townsend http://meredith-martin.com/blog/no-one-is-illegal-most-recent-radio-program-from-the-show-making-contact/#comment-15 Rachel Townsend Thu, 29 May 2008 01:22:07 +0000 http://meredith-martin.com/blog/no-one-is-illegal-most-recent-radio-program-from-the-show-making-contact/#comment-15 Meredith I really like your recommendations! Here are some of my thoughts: Being an immigrant is a state of existence through which all areas of the immigrants life is filtered. This means that the immigrant identity is always present in the story being told. I would like to encourage our communities--and especially the academic community--to consider that (1) immigration is a political act (2) it is a defiant act by an individual against the transnational state and (3) immigration is an act of civil disobedience. Immigrants aren't just casualties of globalization. The immigrant is an agent of change, a participant in, and a definer of the movement that is working for the emancipation of all living, breathing things. I would love for people to realize that whenever we hear the story of the oppressed--in this case the immigrant--we are simultaneously hearing the future story of their liberation. Meredith I really like your recommendations! Here are some of my thoughts:

Being an immigrant is a state of existence through which all areas of the immigrants life is filtered. This means that the immigrant identity is always present in the story being told.

I would like to encourage our communities–and especially the academic community–to consider that (1) immigration is a political act (2) it is a defiant act by an individual against the transnational state and (3) immigration is an act of civil disobedience.

Immigrants aren’t just casualties of globalization. The immigrant is an agent of change, a participant in, and a definer of the movement that is working for the emancipation of all living, breathing things. I would love for people to realize that whenever we hear the story of the oppressed–in this case the immigrant–we are simultaneously hearing the future story of their liberation.

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