| Summary: | The immigrant movement against deportations in the United States has been widely documented in the last fifteen years. Although gender as a category of analysis was incorporated at an early stage, the experiences of first-generation immigrant women in this movement have been poorly documented. Based on ethnographic research, this article analyzes the gendered, class-driven experiences of first-generation migrant women who are activists in the local immigrant movement in Austin, Texas. The aim is to understand the meanings they assign to their political work; and how these ways of understanding politics blur the sharp demarcations between the public and the private spheres, questioning androcentric ways of understanding social movements and political participation.
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