Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal

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—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.