Walter Nicholls: 3 books
Waves of Social Movement Mobilizations in the Twenty-First Century
Challenges to the Neo-Liberal World Order and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Based on case studies, this book analyzes a recent wave of social movement and protests in the twenty-first century. It has two overarching broadly defined themes: first, to identify commonalities across the social movements and protests in terms of strategies, desire, hopes as well as the main factors...
The DREAMers
How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigrant Rights Debate
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
On May 17, 2010, four undocumented students occupied the Arizona office of Senator John McCain. Across the country a flurry of occupations, hunger strikes, demonstrations, and marches followed, calling for support of the DREAM Act that would allow these young people the legal right to stay in the...
Cities and Social Movements
Immigrant Rights Activism in the US, France, and the Netherlands, 1970-2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do – or don’t – develop into large and sustained mobilizations.
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