Illegal people : how globalization creates migration and criminalizes immigrants /

Illegal people : how globalization creates migration and criminalizes immigrants /

From the Publisher: For two decades veteran photojournalist David Bacon has documented the connections between labor, migration, and the global economy. In Illegal People Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people in Latin America and Asia, driving them...

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Main Author: Bacon, David, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, c2008
Subjects:
Foreign workers > United States
Foreign workers > Developing countries
Globalization > Economic aspects
Globalization > Social aspects
Labor policy > United States
Labor movement > United States
Labor unions > Political activity > United States
Undocumented immigrants > United States
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Table of Contents:
  • 1: Making work a crime. Merry Christmas, you're fired ; How the housekeepers saw it ; Smithfield raids: overt union-busting
  • 2: Why did we come? Flight from Oaxaca ; Battles in the mines
  • 3: Displacement and migration. Forcing people into the migrant stream ; Sensenbrenner family business ; Migrant labor: an indispensable part of a global system ; Profitability of undocumented labor
  • 4: Fast track to the past. Not enough workers! ; Modern-day braceros ; How corporations won the debate on immigration reform
  • 5: Which side are you on? Paolo Freire on LA's mean streets ; Los Angeles: class war's Ground Zero ; Story of Ana Martinez ; Immigration enforcement becomes a weapon to stop unions ; Operation vanguard ; Immigrant workers ask labor: "which side are you on?"
  • 6: Blacks plus immigrants plus unions equals power. Mississippi battleground ; Katrina: window on a nightmare ; Common ground of jobs and rights ; Remedy the past's injustice ; People in the streets want more
  • 7: Illegal people or illegal work? Illegal means not European and not white ; Fighting second-class status ; Silicon Valley's high-tech sweatshops ; What future for our children?
  • 8: Whose new world order? High skills and low salaries ; From guest worker to German citizen ; Suppressing asylum seekers while promoting "managed migration" ; Mode 4 and the UN Convention on the Rights of Migrants ; Transnational communities: a new definition of citizenship

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