"In this compelling and highly original work, Pallares illustrates how Latino activists frame the family to contest immigrants' negative representation and to make counterclaims on behalf of unauthorized and mixed-status families." - Pat Zavella (author of I'm Neither Here Nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty) "Family Activism is a timely, compelling, and significant contribution to understanding the desperation experienced by immigrant families, by women and children, and by undocumented youth raised in the United States because of the ever-present fear of deportation-a must read!" - Leo R. Chavez (author of Covering Immigration: Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation)
