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Illegal people: how globalization creates migration and criminalizes immigrants

Author

Bacon, David

Publisher

Beacon Press

Publication Date

c2008

Language

English

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Making work a crime: Merry Christmas, you're fired

How the housekeepers saw it

The Smithfield raids: overt union-busting

Why did we come?: Flight from Oaxaca

Battles in the mines

Displacement and migration: Forcing people into the migrant stream

The Sensebrenner family business

Migrant labor: an indispensable part of a global system

The profitability of undocumented labor

Fast track to the past: Not enough workers!

Modern-day braceros

How corporations won the debate on immigration reform

Which side are you on?: Paolo Freire on LA's mean streets

Los Angeles: class war's Ground Zero

The story of Ana Martinez

Immigration enforcement becomes a weapon to stop unions

Operation vanguard

Immigrant workers ask labor: "Which side are you on?"

Blacks + immigrants + unions = power: Mississippi battleground

Katrina: window on a nightmare

The common ground of jobs and rights

Remedy the past's injustice

People in the streets want more

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?"

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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Subjects

Economic aspects
Electronic books
Foreign workers
Foreign workers -- Developing countries
Foreign workers -- United States
Globalization
Globalization -- Economic aspects
Globalization -- Social aspects
Illegal immigration
Labor movement
Labor movement -- United States
Labor policy
Labor policy -- United States
Labor unions
Labor unions -- United States -- Political activity
Noncitizens
Noncitizens -- United States
Political activity
Social aspects
Undocumented immigrants
Undocumented immigrants -- United States

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ProQuest (Firm)

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9780807042267
9780807097014

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