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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1. Verfasser:	Bacon, David (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Boston Beacon Press c2008
Schlagworte:	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 Illegal aliens / United States Entwicklungsländer Gesellschaft Gewerkschaft Globalisierung Illegale Einwanderung USA
Zusammenfassung:	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 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-spot reporting from both impoverished communities abroad and American immigrant workplaces and neighborhoods, Bacon shows how the United States' trade and economic policy abroad, in seeking to create a favorable investment climate for large corporations, creates conditions to displace communities and set migration into motion.
Beschreibung:	1: Making work a crime. Merry Christmas, you're fired ; How the housekeepers saw it ; Smithfield raids: overt union-busting -- 2: Why did we come? Flight from Oaxaca ; Battles in the mines -- 3: Displacement and migration. Forcing people into the migrant stream ; Sensenbrenner family business ; Migrant labor: an indispensable part of a global system ; Profitability of undocumented labor -- 4: Fast track to the past. Not enough workers! ; Modern-day braceros ; How corporations won the debate on immigration reform -- 5: Which side are you on? Paolo Freire on LA's mean streets ; Los Angeles: class war's Ground Zero ; Story of Ana Martinez ; Immigration enforcement becomes a weapon to stop unions ; Operation vanguard ; Immigrant workers ask labor: "which side are you on?" -- 6: Blacks plus immigrants plus unions equals power. Mississippi battleground ; Katrina: window on a nightmare ; Common ground of jobs and rights ; Remedy the past's injustice ; People in the streets want more -- 7: 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? -- 8: 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
Beschreibung:	x, 261 p. 24 cm