Constructed Movements

Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities

Ragini Shah

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English

University of California Press
26 November 2024

Migration, immigration & emigration; Social classes; Hispanic & Latino studies; Immigration law

Series: Race, Labor Migration, and the Law

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

At once theoretically sophisticated and poignantly written, Constructed Movements centers stories from communities in Mexico profoundly affected by emigration to the United States to show how migration extracts resources along racial lines. Ragini Shah chronicles how three interrelated dynamics—the maldistribution of public resources, the exploitation of migrant labor, and the US immigration enforcement regime—entrench the necessity of migration as a strategy for survival in Mexico. She also highlights the alternative visions elaborated by migrant community organizations that seek to end the conditions that force migration. Recognizing that reform without recompense will never right an unjust migratory system, Shah concludes with a forceful call for the US and Mexican governments to make abolitionist investments and reparative compensation to directly counteract this legacy of extraction.

By: Ragini Shah
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780520404472
ISBN 10: 0520404475
Series: Race, Labor Migration, and the Law
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 26 November 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ragini Shah is Clinical Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School, where she is founding director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic.