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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. Shah concludes with a forceful call for the U.S. and Mexican governments to make abolitionist investments and reparative compensation to directly counteract this legacy of extraction.
Ragini Shah is a Clinical Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School and director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic which she founded in 2007. Her writing examines immigration law from the perspective of those most impacted. From 2012-2017, she conducted over 70 interviews with former migrants, their families, and community organizers in Mexico to gain their perspectives on U.S. immigration policies. The research was funded by a Fulbright award and a grant from Suffolk University. These conversations and observations formed the basis of her book, Constructed Movements, Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities.
This event is hosted by the UC Davis Labor and Community Center of the Greater Capital Region.