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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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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The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to runâŠ
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