No One is Illegal (Updated Edition): Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico BorderCountering the chorus of anti-immigrant voices that have grown increasingly loud in the current political moment, No One is Illegal exposes the racism of anti-immigration vigilantes and puts a human face on the immigrants who risk their lives to cross the border to work in the United States. This second edition has a new introduction to frame the analysis of the struggle for immigrant rights and the roots of the backlash. Justin Akers Chacón is the author of the forthcoming Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican American Working Class. Mike Davis is the author many books, including The Ecology of Fear and Planet of Slums. |
Contents
The War on Immigrants | |
Immigration Policy as a Means to Control Labor | |
The Race and Class Construction of Immigration Restrictions | |
Racism and Mexican Labor | |
Immigration Double Standards | |
Death Warrant for Migrant Workers | |
September 11 and the War on Immigrants | |
The Bipartisan Segregationists of Labor | |
Neoliberalism Consumes the Mexican Miracle | |
Profiting from Borders | |
Mexican Workers The Other American Working Class | |
Mexican Workers to the Rescue | |
Class Struggle in the Fields | |
A TwentiethCentury Caste System | |
Legacy of the Bracero Program | |
Immigrant Workers Continue to Build America | |
The Right Wing Calls the Shots | |
The Minutemen Stalk Their Prey | |
Queremos un Mundo Sin Fronteras | |
Human Rights Activists Confront the Far Right | |
Unions and Immigrant Workers | |
Making Borders History | |
A New Civil Rights Movement | |
Mass Mobilization Defeats SensenbrennerKing HR 4437 | |
State Repression of Immigrant Workers | |
The Immigrant Rights Movement at the Polls | |
The Arizona Laboratory and SB 1070 | |
The Degeneration of Comprehensive Immigration Reform | |
Immigrant Rights at a Crossroads | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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