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.