A longtime immigration activist explores what it means to be an undocumented American in this âimpassioned and well-reported case for changeâ (New York Times).
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In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how âillegalityâ and âundocumentednessâ 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 statusâand to what ends.
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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.