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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Table of Contents
PREFACE ix
INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER 1
Where Did Illegality Come From? 23
CHAPTER 2
Choosing to Be Undocumented 40
CHAPTER 3
Becoming Illegal 71
CHAPTER 4
What Part of “Illegal” Do You Understand? 87
CHAPTER 5
Working (Part 1) 113
CHAPTER 6
Working (Part 2) 130
CHAPTER 7
Children and Families 152
CHAPTER 8
Solutions 181
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 209
NOTES 210
INDEX 238
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