Illegal People : How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants

For two decades David Bacon has documented the connections between labor, migration, and the global economy. InIllegal Peoplehe explains why our national policy produces even more displacement, migration, immigration raids, and an increasingly divided and polarized society. Arguing for a sea change in how we think, debate, and legislate about and around immigration, Bacon promotes a human rights perspective in a globalized world.

Award-winning photojournalist David Bacon spent thirty years as a labor organizer and immigrant rights activist. His articles have appeared in the Nation, American Prospect, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle. Bacon hosts a weekly radio show on KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California.