Undocumented immigrants are removable from the nation at any time and their participation in political activism heightens this risk. Yet, undocumented organisers have been at the forefront of the immigrant rights movement. This article demonstrates how through their use of civil disobedience tactics, undocumented activists are in fact working to re‐conceptualise citizenship to include those who are not legally present in the country. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Chicago, IL, we develop a three‐part framework—double vulnerability, extending/expanding risk, and including the excluded—to analyse the role of civil disobedience in the contemporary US immigrant rights movement. We then compare the use of civil disobedience in the US immigrant rights movement with the US Civil Rights and Indian Independence movements. In our analysis of civil disobedience, we demonstrate that activists can simultaneously be complicit with and directly challenge mainstream depictions of deservingness for citizenship.

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公民抗命是美国移民权利运动中的战略阻力

无证移民可随时从国家撤离，他们参加政治活动增加了这种风险。然而，无证件组织者一直处于移民权利运动的最前沿。本文展示了无证维权人士如何通过使用公民抗命战术来实际上重新构想公民身份，以包括在该国合法不在场的人。借助在伊利诺伊州芝加哥进行的三年的人种志田野调查，我们开发了一个由三部分组成的框架-双重脆弱性，扩展/扩大的风险，包括被排除的框架，以分析公民抗命在当代美国移民权利运动中的作用。然后，我们将美国移民权利运动与美国民权和印度独立运动中公民抗命的使用作了比较。