Undocumented

This new Beacon Classics edition of Undocumented explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic and historical context, now in a deluxe hardcover package. In this important and 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**x2014;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. Now in a new Beacon Classics edition, Undocumented proves to be even more important in today's political climate.