‘Aqui estamos y no nos vamos!’ Global capital and immigrant rights
Open Access
- 1 October 2006
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Race & Class
- Vol. 48 (2), 77-91
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396806069525
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, trans-national 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.Keywords
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