Het werk van Aviva Chomsky duikt in geschiedenis en Latijns-Amerikaanse studies, geïnformeerd door meer dan vijfentwintig jaar activisme in solidariteit met Latijns-Amerika en immigrantenrechten. Haar schrijven wordt gevormd door een diep begrip van de sociale en politieke dynamiek van de regio. Lezers waarderen haar analytische benadering van hedendaagse problemen, geworteld in historische context. Haar bijdragen nodigen uit tot reflectie op de ingewikkelde relaties tussen culturen en machtsstructuren.
"This book shows that science is not enough to reverse climate catastrophe: we need to put social, racial, and economic justice front and center, radically redistribute, and abandon the global growth economy"-- Provided by publisher
Organizing for Power focuses on the working class and forms of labor organizing in the greater Boston area.
"Places Central American migration to the United States in the context of the region's history of conquest, colonialism, revolution, and neoliberalism, looking especially at the revolutionary experiments of the 1980s and their aftermath"-- Provided by publisher
A fully-revised and updated new edition of a concise and insightful socio- historical analysis of the Cuban revolution, and the course it took over five and a half decades.
A longtime immigration activist explores what it means to be an undocumented American in this “impassioned and well-reported case for change” (New York Times). 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.
An analysis of migration, labor-management collaboration, and the mobility of capital based on case studies in New England and Colombia.
Claims that immigrants take Americans' jobs, are a drain on the American economy, contribute to poverty and inequality, destroy the social fabric, challenge American identity, and contribute to a host of social ills by their very existence are openly discussed and debated at all levels of society. Chomsky dismantles twenty of the most common assumptions and beliefs underlying statements like "I'm not against immigration, only illegal immigration" and challenges the misinformation in clear, straightforward prose.In exposing the myths that underlie today's debate, Chomsky illustrates how the parameters and presumptions of the debate distort how we think—and have been thinking—about immigration. She observes that race, ethnicity, and gender were historically used as reasons to exclude portions of the population from access to rights. Today, Chomsky argues, the dividing line is citizenship. Although resentment against immigrants and attempts to further marginalize them are still apparent today, the notion that non-citizens, too, are created equal is virtually absent from the public sphere. Engaging and fresh, this book will challenge common assumptions about immigrants, immigration, and U.S. history.