Countering 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.
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No One Is Illegal convincingly debunks the leading ideas behind the often-violent right-wing backlash against immigrants.
  • Addresses the root causes of violence against immigrants which has become increasingly important in the current political period of polarization and anti-immigrant attacks.
  • Davis is a respected authority on the history of the Mexico-California border and on immigrant workers. He has a following among activists and progressive academics.
  • Includes powerful photographs, and informative maps and charts.
  • The majority of California will soon be non-white; this trend is continuing to reshape politics nationally.
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    Product details

    ISBN
    9781608468492
    Published
    2018-05-15
    Publisher
    Haymarket Books
    Height
    210 mm
    Width
    140 mm
    Age
    01, G, 01
    Language
    Product language
    Engelsk
    Format
    Product format
    Heftet
    Number of pages
    246

    Biographical note

    Justin Akers Chacón is a professor of U.S. History and Chicano Studies in San Diego, California. He has contributed to the International Socialist Review and the book Immigration: Opposing Viewpoints (Greenhaven Press).

    Writer, historian, and activist Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California at Irvine, and lives in San Diego.