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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bacon, David, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Beacon Press, ©2008.
Temas:
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.
Mondialisation.
Mondialisation > Aspect social.
Travail > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Mouvement ouvrier > États-Unis.
Syndicats > Activité politique > États-Unis.
Travailleurs étrangers > États-Unis.
globalism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Foreign workers
Globalization > Economic aspects
Globalization > Social aspects
Labor movement
Labor policy
Labor unions > Political activity
Developing countries
United States
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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