Constructed movements : extraction and resistance in Mexican migrant communities /

"At once theoretically sophisticated and poignantly written, Constructed Movements centers stories from communities in Mexico profoundly affected by emigration to the United States to show how migration extracts resources along racial lines. Ragini Shah chronicles how three interrelated dynamic...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Shah, Ragini (مؤلف)
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Oakland : University of California Press, 2025.
سلاسل:Race, labor migration, and the law ; vol 1
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الملخص:"At once theoretically sophisticated and poignantly written, Constructed Movements centers stories from communities in Mexico profoundly affected by emigration to the United States to show how migration extracts resources along racial lines. Ragini Shah chronicles how three interrelated dynamics-the maldistribution of public resources, the exploitation of migrant labor, and the US immigration enforcement regime-entrench the necessity of migration as a strategy for survival in Mexico. She also highlights the alternative visions elaborated by migrant community organizations that seek to end the conditions that force migration. Recognizing that reform without recompense will never right an unjust migratory system, Shah concludes with a forceful call for the US and Mexican governments to make abolitionist investments and reparative compensation to directly counteract this legacy of extraction"--
وصف مادي:1 online resource.
بيبلوغرافيا:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ردمك:0520404483
9780520404489
وصول:Open access versions available from some providers