#3386. La Lucha: framing the struggle for survival, double consciousness and the economy of identity for undocumented Latina/os

October 2026publication date
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Abstract:
Undocumented immigrants often describe their lives as the struggle. The life abroad interpretable as a frame that demarcates how undocumented immigrants employ the performance of economic tasks to establish both individual and collective identity. Although claiming positive elements of racialised stereotypes as coping mechanisms and racialised illegality have been separately theorised, they have not been brought together in a theory of self. In the words of undocumented immigrants from interviews, I illustrate how double consciousness reveals the simultaneity of uplift and collective struggle. It illuminates through the linkage of the context of the ‘struggle’ to internalization of the hard worker archetype, engaging these contradictory perspectives in a single identity. The existential elements of highlight need for policy addressing the liminality of undocumented life and instability of precarious work.
Keywords:
double consciousness; economic strategies; identity; undocumented immigration

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