Book description
For two decades veteran photojournalist David Bacon has documented the connections between labor, migration, and the global economy. In Illegal People Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people in Latin America and Asia, driving them to migrate. At the same time, U.S. immigrationâŠ
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1 author picked Illegal People as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book helped me to understand the reasons people choose to migrateâand, in particular, how big structural changes in the policies and law of the United States can lead to changes elsewhere that makes it hard to avoid migrating. Itâs easy to focus either on the particular stories of individual people, or on the big picture of global economics; itâs a rare thing to see these two done together, and done in such a skillful way.
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