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Constructed Movements : Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities

Authors :
Ragini Shah
Ragini Shah
Publication Year :
2024

Abstract

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. At once theoretically sophisticated and poignantly written, Constructed Movements centers stories from communities in Mexico profoundly affected by emigration to the United States to show how migration extracts resources along racial lines. Ragini Shah chronicles how three interrelated dynamics—the maldistribution of public resources, the exploitation of migrant labor, and the US immigration enforcement regime—entrench the necessity of migration as a strategy for survival in Mexico. She also highlights the alternative visions elaborated by migrant community organizations that seek to end the conditions that force migration. Recognizing that reform without recompense will never right an unjust migratory system, Shah concludes with a forceful call for the US and Mexican governments to make abolitionist investments and reparative compensation to directly counteract this legacy of extraction.

Details

Language :
English
ISBNs :
9780520404472 and 9780520404489
Volume :
00001
Database :
eBook Index
Journal :
Constructed Movements : Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities
Publication Type :
eBook
Accession number :
4038012