Undocumented immigrant youths, known as the Dreamers, rose to exceptional prominence in the American immigrant rights movement in the 2000s and 2010s. The Dreamers had considerable success in presenting themselves as assimilated and hard-working patriots worthy of regularization. While this strategy worked well in the media and politics, it also created a distance between the Dreamers and less privileged groups of undocumented immigrants. In 2013, just when they were widely recognized as legitimate, the Dreamers made the remarkable move to change their strategy: rather than presenting themselves as model immigrants uniquely worthy of regularization, they began mobilizing for policies benefiting all undocumented migrants. By documenting and explaining this change in strategy, this paper addresses the broader question of what separates and binds privileged and underprivileged subgroups in social movements.

在2000年代和2010年代，无证移民青年（称为梦想家）在美国移民权利运动中脱颖而出。梦想家在将自己介绍为值得正规化的同化和勤奋的爱国者方面取得了相当大的成功。尽管该策略在媒体和政治领域运作良好，但也使梦想家们与特权较低的无证移民群体之间产生了距离。2013年，梦想家们被广泛认为是合法的，他们做出了非凡的举动，改变了自己的战略：他们没有动员自己成为唯一值得正规化的模范移民，而是动员起来制定了使所有人受益的政策。无证移民。通过记录和解释这种策略上的变化，本文解决了更广泛的问题，即社会运动中什么区分和束缚了特权群体和弱势群体。