• Preface: "There's no movement"


• Introduction: "To speak in its name": Movement Reification and Radicalization


• Chapter 1: Conjuring the DREAMer


• Chapter 2: Campus DREAMers


• Chapter 3: DreamACTivist.org


• Chapter 4: 2010, Part I: The Dream is Coming


• Chapter 5: 2010, Part II: Noodles 2.0


• Chapter 6: 2011: NIYA and the Bad Dreamers


• Chapter 7: 2012 and 2013: Infiltrators and Coyotes


• Conclusion: On the Mysteries of Movements and Radicalization


• Appendix: Method and Data


• Acknowledgements


• Notes


• References


• Index

Michael P. Young is Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Bearing Witness against Sin: The Evangelical Birth of the American Social Movement. His research has been published in leading journals, including American Sociological Review, Social Problems, and Theory and Society.

DREAMers and the Choreography of Protest tells the story of how a network of undocumented youth radicalized the immigrant rights movement in the United States. Based on interviews with lead activists, extensive archival research, and years of ethnographic study, Michael P. Young traces the key events shaping DREAMer activism from 2006 to 2014. Chronicling a sequence of escalating protests--from sit-ins to detention center infiltrations and border crossing actions--Young argues that this audacious choreography of protest inspired and shaped a social movement of and for undocumented immigrants.