The Border Crossed Us

Name: The Border Crossed Us
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The Case for Opening the US-Mexico Border

By Justin Akers Chacn

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The Border Crossed Us explores the ruthless exploitation of labour across the US-Mexico border, highlighting how capitalism's transnational operations fuel repression and anti-immigrant sentiments. Author and activist-scholar Justin Akers Chacón argues that migrant workers are central to the struggle for justice, demonstrating how labour and migrant solidarity movements challenge this system and call for the opening of borders to rebuild international unity.
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Ideal for readers interested in labour rights, migration, anti-capitalist movements, and social justice activists seeking in-depth understanding of border politics and solidarity organising.

A compelling argument that re-building unions requires solidarity with migrant workers and opening borders.

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The aggressive exploitation of labour 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 characterise our political reality and are shaping how people intersect at the US-Mexico border every day.

As activist-scholar Justin Akers Chacón carefully demonstrates, however, this vicious model of capitalist transnationalisation has also created its own grave-diggers. Migrant workers have been at the forefront of class struggle in the United States.

This timely book, The Border Crossed Us, persuasively argues that labour and migrant solidarity movements are already showing how and why, in order to fight for justice and rebuild the international union movement, we must open the border.

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Praised as a meticulously researched and urgent manifesto, the book exposes how the mobility of capital criminalises labour movement and champions the demand for worker freedom. Endorsed for its clear-eyed analysis of labour repression and compelling call for cross-border organising, reviewers commend its radical perspective essential to anti-capitalist and working-class politics.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781642594607

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 August 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Haymarket Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 304

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About the Author

Justin Akers Chacn is an activist, labor unionist, and educator living in the San Diego-Tijuana border region. He is a Professor of Chicana/o History at San Diego City College. His other books include No One is Illegal (with Mike Davis) and Radicals in the Barrio.