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Acknowledgments I had no idea that editing an anthology could be such a pleasure, or I would have done it a long time ago. My thanks to the hard work, intelligence and commitment of the contributors represented here. Reading their work and corresponding with them on this project was an unanticipated delight. A fellowship from the Morris Fromkin Research fund at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee in 2006 provided time to germinate the idea of doing this anthology and supported the idea that scholarship could and should be socially progressive. A fellowship from the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, during spring 2007 provided time to work on this book. Invitations from Dorothee Sch- neider (University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign) and Frieda Knobloch (University of Wyoming) to present versions of my work on undocumented students and in-state tuition during the spring of 2006 helped develop this project further. Meeting students, like Diane Mora, Yeni Salgado, and Ve- ronica Sotelo, who are deeply engaged in immigrant rights made me real- ize the importance of this work. And landing in the History Department and Comparative Ethnic Studies Program at UWM has been a stroke of luck. My colleagues here create an atmosphere of creativity and collabo- ration. I am also grateful for the insights of the many undergraduate and graduate students I have taught here at UWM, in particular, Bri Smith, Will Smith, Jackleen Salem, Dyuti Ailawadi, Nick Hoff man, Todd T. Taylor, Carly Weckworth, Natalie Battle, Anna Conners, Steven Vincent Anderson, Linda Chance, Connoree Russell, Mark Enters, and Xouhoa Ching. George Lipsitz has always provided a model of politically engaged scholarship, and he made suggestions for this anthology in its early stages. Donna Gabaccia has shared her generative intellect and identifi ed poten- tial contributors. Matthew Frye Jacobson has been a friend of this project and its editor from the get-go and has made key interventions on its be- half. Eric Zinner, editorial director at New York University Press, treated this project with due seriousness when it was merely a drafty proposal and a twinkle in my eye. Emily Park, Ciara McLoughlin, and Aiden Amos, as- sistant editors, and Despina Papazoglou Gimbel, managing editor at NYU Press, have been models of professionalism throughout. Cynthia Garver ix BBuff_pi-x.indduff_pi-x.indd iixx 55/27/08/27/08 33:56:55:56:55 PMPM x Acknowledgments adeptly copyedited the manuscript, improving the quality of the prose. Two anonymous readers provided essential suggestions to make this a better book; I have tried to follow them. My friend Rich Kees provided key assistance in the clutch, as he has frequently been known to do. Th e Childcare Center at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee has been a happy place for our daughters to be while I was working on this volume. My thanks in particular to Patty Zim- merman, Carmen Simpson, and the incomparable Casey Seymour. Wendy Kozol, Jason Loviglio, and Nan Enstad have been sources of intellectual and psychic support in this project, as well as in most others I can imagine undertaking. I am grateful to have them as colleagues and friends. Th e intellectual rigor and hard work of my partner, Joe Austin, along with his commitment to our life together, provides the bedrock on which this book and everything else I do rests. Our two daughters, Ruby Lou and Ellie Rae Sylvia Balotovsky, make me reconsider everything I know and make reinventing the world as we know it a glorious and ongoing project. My love to these three. Finally, I am deeply indebted to everyone at Voces de la Frontera of Milwaukee for their example of political ingenuity and vision. Christine Neumann-Ortiz in particular has been a great friend and ally. I continue to learn from her political savvy and passion. Voces continually asserts the presence and human dignity of contemporary immigrants and, by exten- sion, of anyone who has ever moved anywhere at all. BBuff_pi-x.indduff_pi-x.indd x 55/27/08/27/08 33:56:55:56:55 PMPM.