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The right to stay home : how US policy drives Mexican migration / David Bacon.

by Bacon, David, 1948-

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Boston : Beacon Press, c2013.

Forced migration -- Mexico.

Poverty -- Mexico.

Foreign workers -- United States.

Immigrants -- United States.

Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects.

Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.

Mexico -- Commercial policy.

9780807001615 (hardcover : alk. paper) :

0807001619 (hardcover : alk. paper)

xv, 309 pages ; 24 cm

From Perote to Tar Heel. Pushing people out of Veracruz -- Smithfield goes to Mexico -- And Veracruz migrants come to the United States -- The union campaign in Tar Heel -- Demands for change, on both sides of the border -- A union for tobacco workers -- Narrative one: You don't need to be a doctor or scientist to smell the stench: the story of Fausto Limon -- Narrative two: We're here because of the economic crisis: the story of David Ceja and Guadalupe Marroquin -- Cursed by gold or blessed by corn. Communities resist Canadian mining companies -- Killings in San Jose del Progreso -- Oaxacans debate poverty and migration -- A government committed to the right to not migrate? Can the Triquis go home? -- Narrative three: If we don't attack the roots of migration, it will continue to grow: the story of Rufino Dominguez -- Narrative four: We want to talk about the right to stay home: the story of Aldo Gonzalez -- The right to a union means the right to stay home. Mexican miners resist repression and poverty -- Labor law reform a boss could love -- Calderon goes to war with the SME -- Migration and cross-border labor solidarity -- Narrative five: We're fighting for our right to keep on living in Cananea: the story of Jacinto Martinez -- Narrative six: No matter what the result, we will continue to resist: the story of Humberto Montes de Oca -- Defending the human rights of migrants. Special courtrooms for immigrants -- Bush ties workplace raids to immigration reform -- Myths and realities of enforcement -- Mississippi resists political raids and anti-immigrant bills -- Utah's immigration bills: a blast from the past -- Narrative seven: They pay us a wage that barely allows us to make a living: the story of Lucrecia Camacho -- Narrative eight: We made them millions of dollars: the story of Lupe Chavez -- Fighting the firings. Mass firings: the Obama administration's workplace enforcement policy -- The firings spread, along with the resistance -- Protest tactics cross the border -- Marching away from the Cold War -- Narrative nine: This law is very unjust: the story of Teresa Mina -- Narrative ten: When we speak you hear a roar: the story of Keith Ludlum and Terry Slaughter -- Human beings or just workers? How do you say justice in Mixteco? -- Something less than citizens -- Enforcing labor rights for border crossers -- Canada's "model" guest worker program -- The pitfalls of regulating guest worker programs -- Narrative eleven: The future doesn't exist for us here: the story of Miguel Huerta -- The right not to migrate and radical reform. Challenging the Washington, DC, consensus -- The right to not migrate is a social movement.

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