Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal

ISBN: 0807001678

Author: Chomsky, Aviva

Condition: Used

A longtime immigration activist explores what it means to be an undocumented American in this impassioned and well-reported case for change (New York Times).In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how illegality and undocumentedness 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 status-and to what ends.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.

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