The Right to Stay Home
How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration
The story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities to the poverty that forces people to migrate to the United States People across Mexico are being forced into migration, and while 11 percent of that country's population lives north of the US border, the decision to migrate is rarely voluntary. Free trade agreements and economic policies that exacerbate and reinforce extreme wealth disparities make it impossible for Mexicans to make a living at home. And yet when they migrate to the United States, they must grapple with criminalization, low wages, and exploitation. In The Right to Stay Home, journalist David Bacon tells the story…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8070-0162-2
- EAN: 9780807001622
- Produktnummer: 15726932
- Verlag: Beacon Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 643 KB
Über den Autor
Award-winning photojournalist and author, David Bacon has spent twenty years as a labor organizer and immigrant rights activist. He has been a reporter and documentary photographer for eighteen years, shooting for many national publications, and has exhibited his work internationally. He is an associate editor at Pacific News Service and hosts a weekly radio show on labor, immigration, and the global economy on KPFA-FM.
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