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Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal

By Aviva Chomsky

Book information

Publisher
Beacon Press
Year
2014
ISBN
0807001678, 9780807001677
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2288989 bytes)
Pages
256\0
Time added
2016-08-13 05:39:04
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Description

Explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic and historical context  In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy, she probes how people, especially Mexican and Central Americans, have been assigned this status—and to what ends. Blending history with human drama, Chomsky explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic, and historical context. The result is a powerful testament of the complex, contradictory, and ever-shifting nature of status in America.

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