Aviva Chomsky - "Criminalization, Immigration, and Citizenship in the 21st Century"

In a timely lecture, celebrated historian, activist and Latin America specialist Aviva Chomsky gave a talk on immigration issues on November 2, 2017 in Gooding Auditorium.

Chomsky, professor of history and coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts, spoke on “Criminalization, Immigration and Citizenship in the 21st Century.”

Chomsky’s most recent book is Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal (Beacon Press). Her scholarly work has its origins in the mid-‘70s, when she worked for the United Farm Workers union, piquing her interest in the Spanish language, migrant workers, labor history and social movements, and in how people collectively organize for social change.

“Thematically, I incorporate the issues of colonialism, economic development, migration, race, labor, environment, and global inequality,” she says in her Salem State bio.

“In a post-truth era mistakenly taken for ‘appealing and angry political incorrectness,’ it is very important to have a real politically incorrect, intellectual challenger figure such as Aviva Chomsky, a world-respected scholar who presents the complex reality of facts — particularly those conveniently forgotten by socially fabricated narratives — in a way that anyone can understand,” said Dr. Jorge Majfud, associate professor of Spanish, who co-organized the event.

Chomsky is the author of numerous additional books, including They Take Our Jobs! And 20 Other Myths About Immigration (Beacon Press), and writes regularly for The Nation and the venerated essayist site TomDispatch.com, including articles such as "Clinton and Obama Laid the Groundwork for Donald Trump’s War on Immigrants," "America Wanted to Keep Immigrants Out Long Before Donald Trump Was Even Born," and "The Criminalization of Immigrants From Clinton to Trump."

In its review of Undocumented, Publisher’s Weekly states: “Chomsky reminds readers that, contrary to the freedom with which American citizens travel, for many, ‘freedom to travel is a distant dream.’ Professional in her scholarship, Chomsky has written a book that will be relevant to those who do not share her position as well as to those who do.”

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