Author: David Bacon
Publisher: Beacon Press
Keywords: criminalizes, immigrants, migration, creates, people, globalization, illegal
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 2008-09-17
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0807042269
ISBN-13: 9780807042267

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 to migrate. At the same time, U.S. immigration policy makes the labor of those displaced people a crime in the United States. Illegal People explains why our national policy produces even more displacement, more migration, more immigration raids, and a more divided, polarized society.Through interviews and on-the

Author: David Baco
Publisher: Beacon Pre
Keywords: criminalizes, immigrants, migration, creates, people, globalization, illegal
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0807042307
ISBN-13: 9780807042304

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.