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This program looks at the invention of “undocumentedness” and puts recent debates about immigration in a historical context of settler colonialism.
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Professor Chomsky will argue that the United States is a “nation of deportation” as much as it is a “nation of immigrants.” Citizenship, labor, and immigration laws have intertwined to promote the economic goal of ensuring cheap labor to employers, sustained by racial notions of white supremacy.
Blending history with human drama, Pr. 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.
Presenter: Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. Her books include "Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration" (forthcoming 2021); "Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal" (Beacon Press, 2014; Mexican edition, 2014), "A History of the Cuban Revolution" (2011, 2nd ed. 2015), "Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class" (2008), "They Take Our Jobs! And Twenty Other Myths about Immigration" (2007; U.S. Spanish edition 2011, Cuban edition 2013), and "West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940" (1996). She has also co-edited several anthologies including "Organizing for Power: Building a Twenty-First Century Labor Movement in Boston" (forthcoming 2021) "The People behind Colombian Coal: Mining, Multinationals and Human Rights"/"Bajo el manto del carbón: Pueblos y multinacionales en las minas del Cerrejón, Colombia" (2007), "The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics" (2003, 2nd edition 2019) and "Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean" (1998). She has been active in Latin America solidarity and immigrants’ rights movements for several decades.
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