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The aggressive exploitation of labor on both sides of the US-Mexico
border has become a prominent feature of capitalism in North
America. Kids in cages, violent ICE raids, and anti-immigrant
racist rhetoric characterize our political reality and are everyday
shaping how people intersect at the US-Mexico border. As
activist-scholar Justin Akers Chacon carefully demonstrates,
however, this vicious model of capitalist transnationalization has
also created its own grave-diggers. Contemporary North American
capitalism relies heavily on an inter-connected working class which
extends across the border. Cross-border production and supply
chains, logistics networks, and retail and service firms have
aligned and fused a growing number of workers into one common
class, whether they live in the US or Mexico. While money moves
without restriction, the movement of displaced migrant workers
across borders is restricted and punished. Transborder people face
walls, armed agents, detention camps, and a growing regime of
repressive laws that criminalize them. Despite the growth and
violence of the police state dedicated to the repression of
transborder populations-the migra-state-migrant workers have been
at the forefront of class struggle in the United States. This
timely book persuasively argues that labor and migrant solidarity
movements are already showing how and why, in order to fight for
justice and re-build the international union movement, we must open
the border.
The aggressive exploitation of labor on both sides of the US-Mexico
border has become a prominent feature of capitalism in North
America. Kids in cages, violent ICE raids, and anti-immigrant
racist rhetoric characterize our political reality and are everyday
shaping how people intersect at the US-Mexico border. As
activist-scholar Justin Akers Chacon carefully demonstrates,
however, this vicious model of capitalist transnationalization has
also created its own grave-diggers. Contemporary North American
capitalism relies heavily on an inter-connected working class which
extends across the border. Cross-border production and supply
chains, logistics networks, and retail and service firms have
aligned and fused a growing number of workers into one common
class, whether they live in the US or Mexico. While money moves
without restriction, the movement of displaced migrant workers
across borders is restricted and punished. Transborder people face
walls, armed agents, detention camps, and a growing regime of
repressive laws that criminalize them. Despite the growth and
violence of the police state dedicated to the repression of
transborder populations-the migra-state-migrant workers have been
at the forefront of class struggle in the United States. This
timely book persuasively argues that labor and migrant solidarity
movements are already showing how and why, in order to fight for
justice and re-build the international union movement, we must open
the border.
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.
Radicals in the Barrio uncovers a long and rich history of
political radicalism within the Mexican and Chicano working class
in the United States. Chacon clearly and sympathetically documents
the ways that migratory workers carried with them radical political
ideologies, new organizational models, and shared class experience,
as they crossed the border into southwestern barrios during the
first three decades of the twentieth-century.
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