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A review by killedbyfluffy
Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal by Aviva Chomsky
5.0
I remember growing up, constantly hearing about the scourge of illegal immigrants and how our great country was being swept away by illegals. Never did I hear an actual reason for why this was the case except for the paradox of "the lazy illegals are stealing our jobs."
This book is an amazing primer for anyone who really wants to understand how this system was created and why it's so convoluted. The "crisis" of illegal immigration is created by the US because of it's history of neoliberal policies and hegemony over the Western hemisphere, and the only viable solution would require the complete reworking if not out right destruction of our current economic structure. To leave you with a quote from the book: "Every so-called industrialized country... relies on the labor of workers who are legally excluded to maintain its high levels of consumption... these countries rely on the legal conveniences of borders, countries, and citizenship to impose different rules for different people and maintain a legally excluded working class."
This book is an amazing primer for anyone who really wants to understand how this system was created and why it's so convoluted. The "crisis" of illegal immigration is created by the US because of it's history of neoliberal policies and hegemony over the Western hemisphere, and the only viable solution would require the complete reworking if not out right destruction of our current economic structure. To leave you with a quote from the book: "Every so-called industrialized country... relies on the labor of workers who are legally excluded to maintain its high levels of consumption... these countries rely on the legal conveniences of borders, countries, and citizenship to impose different rules for different people and maintain a legally excluded working class."