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In this chapter, I argue that implementing policies like DACA serve as a tool for federal state officials to (re)gain some control over a population it has lost control over, while documentation and IDs across localities and sanctuary regions are a push against federal control. In addition to this, I emphasize the ways in which undocumented immigrants create their own form of documentation through public narratives. One of the key aspects of the immigrant rights movement has been the publication of stories and narratives of immigrant lives. While these stories are important as they have the potential to disrupt images of undocumented immigrants across the United States, they also provide an important tool where their lives are documented and released to be incorporated into the public imagination.
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Interview with GA, Sacramento CA, July 13, 2015.
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Interview with CC, Sacramento CA, July 15, 2015.
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Sleiman-Long, Z. (2020). Documenting Undocumented Immigrants: Negotiating Authority and Belonging Within the City, the State and with Federal Officials. In: Sanctuary Regions and the Struggle for Belonging. Mobility & Politics. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44885-1_7
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