Illegal People

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.

Preface	p. v
Making Work a Crime	p. 1
Merry Christmas. You're fired.	p. 1
How the Housekeepers Saw It	p. 8
The Smithfield Raids: Overt Union-Busting	p. 12
Why Did We Come?	p. 23
Flight from Oaxaca	p. 23
Battles in the Mines	p. 33
Displacement and Migration	p. 51
Forcing People into the Migrant Stream	p. 51
The Sensenbrenner Family Business	p. 64
Migrant Labor: An Indispensable Part of a Global System	p. 70
The Profitability of Undocumented Labor	p. 77
Fast Track to the Past	p. 83
Not Enough Workers!	p. 83
Modern-day Braceros	p. 92
How Corporations Won the Debate on Immigration Reform	p. 105
Which Side Are You On?	p. 119
Paolo Freire on LA's Mean Streets	p. 119
Los Angeles: Class War's Ground Zero	p. 129
The Story of Ana Martinez	p. 136
Immigration Enforcement Becomes a Weapon to Stop Unions	p. 142
Operation Vanguard	p. 147
Immigrant Workers Ask Labor: "Which Side Are You On?"	p. 153
Blacks Plus Immigrants Plus Unions Equals Power	p. 167
Mississippi Battleground	p. 167
Katrina: Window on a Nightmare	p. 179
The Common Ground of Jobs and Rights	p. 183
Remedy the Past's Injustice	p. 189
People in the Streets Want More	p. 193
Illegal People or Illegal Work?	p. 199
Illegal Means Not European and Not White	p. 200
Fighting Second-Class Status	p. 209
Silicon Valley's High-Tech Sweatshops	p. 214
"What Future for Our Children?"	p. 222
Whose New World Order?	p. 233
High Skills and Low Salaries	p. 233
From Guest Worker to German Citizen	p. 238
Suppressing Asylum Seekers While Promoting "Managed Migration"	p. 243
Mode 4 and the UN Convention on the Rights of Migrants	p. 246
Transnational Communities: A New Definition of Citizenship	p. 250
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