Race and Class
Volume 48, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 77-91

'Aqui estamos y no nos vamos!' Global capital and immigrant rights (Review)

Robinson W.I.*
  • a Department of Sociology, Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States, Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

Abstract

The recent mass demonstrations by millions of Latino immigrant workers in the US, against planned, legislation that could lead to the criminalisation and deportation of, literally, millions of workers shook the Bush administration and took commentators by surprise. The upsurge has been dubbed the new civil rights movement. It marks a new stage in globalisation and the phenomenon of mass, transnational migration that such globalisation has engendered. Unprecedented in size and scope, the movement challenges the structural changes bound up with capitalist globalisation and points to the necessity of transnational popular and democratic struggles against it. Copyright © 2006 Institute of Race Relations.

Author Keywords

HR4437 May Day Latino Working class Great American Boycott New civil rights movement Labour transnational Immigration

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-33748771472&doi=10.1177%2f0306396806069525&partnerID=40&md5=a5d1745c520a51d9abb6d376f9a2b09c
DOI: 10.1177/0306396806069525
ISSN: 03063968
Cited by: 28
Original Language: English