No One Is Illegal

Name: No One Is Illegal
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Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border

By Mike Davis and Justin Akers Chacon

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No One Is Illegal confronts the rising tide of anti-immigrant sentiment by revealing the racism behind anti-immigration vigilante actions. It humanises the immigrants who risk everything to cross into the United States for work, offering a compassionate perspective on their struggles. This second edition includes a new introduction that deepens the analysis of immigrant rights and the backlash they face.
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Essential reading for those interested in politics, human rights, and social justice.

No One Is Illegal convincingly debunks the leading ideas behind the often-violent right-wing backlash against immigrants.

Direct-mail and email campaign to groups mobilizing against Trump and anti-immigrant attacks. Out-reach to immigrant rights organizations locally and nationally. Authors available for speaking events and radio interviews, both English and Spanish media. Features and/or excerpts on La Raza website and National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights blog.

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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.

Justin Akers Chacón is the author of the forthcoming Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican American Working Class.

Mike Davis is the author of many books, including The Ecology of Fear and Planet of Slums.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781608468492

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 May 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Haymarket Books

Edition: Second Edition

Illustration: 1 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 246

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American & Canadian History Education & Reference History & Archaeology History & Military Justin Akers Chacon Mike Davis Non-Fiction Politics & Current Affairs Science & Nature

About the Author

Justin Akers Chacn is a professor of U.S. History and Chicano Studies in San Diego, California. He has contributed to the International Socialist Review and the book Immigration: Opposing Viewpoints (Greenhaven Press).

Writer, historian, and activist Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California at Irvine, and lives in San Diego.