ABSTRACT
New social movement and counter-public rhetoric scholars demonstrate a commitment to understanding how everyday people enact public resistance on issues such as globalization, environmental degradation, and oppressive law. Social movement scholars have been essentially silent on coalition-building. When working to understand coalition-building, centering enclaves as a site of rhetorical investigation proves crucial. The chapter shows that how rhetoric functions to facilitate coalition-building between a queer rights and a migrant rights organization by demonstrating how activists interpret rhetoric that emerges from three primary sources: media, legislation and policy, and law enforcement. Coalition-building is also a rich site to unpack another founding assumption of rhetorical scholarship on social movements pertaining to the "ego function" in both self-and other-directed movements. Isabel, a co-president of Coalicion de Derechos Humanos and political personality in Southern Arizona, used the fervor over immigration, as evidenced in legislation and policy, to connect anti-migrant sentiment with anti-queer.
