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David Bacon, Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants Beacon, 2008

In his latest book, David Bacon elucidates the structural factors that generate poverty among people who eventually migrate to the US. According to Bacon, trade policy and the neoliberal economic agenda are closely connected to immigration patterns and policies. He also highlights the political agency of migrant workers.

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