Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal

Explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic and historical context

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 05/13/2014
ISBN: 9780807001677
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/20/2014
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2014
New York Times Book Review 07/06/2014 pg. 26
Choice 11/01/2014 pg. 489