Illegal People : How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants - David Bacon

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Illegal People

How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants

By: David Bacon

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Paperback | 1 September 2018

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For two decades David Bacon has documented the connections between labor, migration, and the global economy. In "Illegal People "he explains why our national policy produces even more displacement, migration, immigration raids, and an increasingly divided and polarized society. Arguing for a sea change in how we think, debate, and legislate about and around immigration, Bacon promotes a human rights perspective in a globalized world.

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Bacon's timely analysis is as cool and competent as his labor advocacy is unapologetic. In mapping the political economy of migration, with an unwavering eye on the rights and dignity of working people, Bacon offers an invaluable corrective to America's hobbled discourse on immigration and a spur to genuine, creative action.--Publishers Weekly, starred review

A fascinating look at trade and immigration policies and the people directly affected by them.---Booklist

David Bacon is the conscience of American journalism and an extraordinary social documentarist.--Mike Davis

Illegal People documents how undocumented workers have become the world's most exploited workforce-subject to raids and arrests, forced to work at low pay and under miserable conditions, and prevented from organizing on their own behalf. In this richly reported book, David Bacon makes a powerful case for the centrality of 'illegals'-of all nationalities-in the global struggle for economic justice.--Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

From the Hawaiian sugar plant organizing drives of the 1930s to the 2007 miners' strike in the Sonoran Desert, Bacon chronicles the struggles and lives of Mexican, Guatemalan, Filipino, Indian and Salvadoran workers . . . [and] unabashedly writes as an advocate. The result is refreshing.--Gary Delgado, ColorLines

David Bacon's book . . . demonstrates that there is hope, and we can win something better, today, not just for immigrants, but for all working people!--Dolores Huerta, cofounder of United Farm Workers

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Globalisation Migration, Immigration & Emigration Industry & Industrial Studies Industrial Relations, Health & Safety Industrial Relations Economics Labour Economics Law

Laws of Specific Jurisdictions Constitutional & Administrative Law Citizenship & Nationality Law Refugees & Political Asylum

Preface	p. v
Making Work a Crime	p. 1
Merry Christmas. You're fired.	p. 1
How the Housekeepers Saw It	p. 8
The Smithfield Raids: Overt Union-Busting	p. 12
Why Did We Come?	p. 23
Flight from Oaxaca	p. 23
Battles in the Mines	p. 33
Displacement and Migration	p. 51
Forcing People into the Migrant Stream	p. 51
The Sensenbrenner Family Business	p. 64
Migrant Labor: An Indispensable Part of a Global System	p. 70
The Profitability of Undocumented Labor	p. 77
Fast Track to the Past	p. 83
Not Enough Workers!	p. 83
Modern-day Braceros	p. 92
How Corporations Won the Debate on Immigration Reform	p. 105
Which Side Are You On?	p. 119
Paolo Freire on LA's Mean Streets	p. 119
Los Angeles: Class War's Ground Zero	p. 129
The Story of Ana Martinez	p. 136
Immigration Enforcement Becomes a Weapon to Stop Unions	p. 142
Operation Vanguard	p. 147
Immigrant Workers Ask Labor: "Which Side Are You On?"	p. 153
Blacks Plus Immigrants Plus Unions Equals Power	p. 167
Mississippi Battleground	p. 167
Katrina: Window on a Nightmare	p. 179
The Common Ground of Jobs and Rights	p. 183
Remedy the Past's Injustice	p. 189
People in the Streets Want More	p. 193
Illegal People or Illegal Work?	p. 199
Illegal Means Not European and Not White	p. 200
Fighting Second-Class Status	p. 209
Silicon Valley's High-Tech Sweatshops	p. 214
"What Future for Our Children?"	p. 222
Whose New World Order?	p. 233
High Skills and Low Salaries	p. 233
From Guest Worker to German Citizen	p. 238
Suppressing Asylum Seekers While Promoting "Managed Migration"	p. 243
Mode 4 and the UN Convention on the Rights of Migrants	p. 246
Transnational Communities: A New Definition of Citizenship	p. 250
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How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants

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