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\n\; Professor Chomsky will argue that the United States is a &ldquo\;nation of deportation&rdquo\; as much as it is a &ldquo\;nation of immigrants.&rdqu o\; \; 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. \; \;
\nBlending hist ory with human drama\, \; Pr. Chomsky explores what it means to be und ocumented in a legal\, social\, economic\, and historical context. The res ult is a powerful testament of the complex\, contradictory\, and ever-shif ting nature of status in America.
\nPresenter: Aviva Chomsky is Prof essor of History and Coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. \; Her books include "Central America&rsq uo\;s Forgotten History: Revolution\, Violence\, and the Roots of Migratio n" (forthcoming 2021)\; "Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal" (Be acon Press\, 2014\; Mexican edition\, 2014)\, "A History of the Cuban Revo lution" (2011\, 2nd ed. 2015)\, "Linked Labor Histories: New England\, Col ombia\, and the Making of a Global Working Class" (2008)\, "They Take Our Jobs! \; And Twenty Other Myths about Immigration" (2007\; U.S. Spanis h edition 2011\, Cuban edition 2013)\, and "West Indian Workers and the Un ited 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 Peo ple behind Colombian Coal: Mining\, Multinationals and Human Rights"/"Bajo el manto del carbó\;n: Pueblos y multinacionales en las minas del C errejó\;n\, Colombia" (2007)\, "The Cuba Reader: History\, Culture\, Politics" (2003\, 2nd edition 2019) and "Identity and Struggle at the Mar gins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean" (1998). \; She has been active in Latin America so lidarity and immigrants&rsquo\; rights movements for several decades.
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