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Aviva Chomsky

Aviva Chomsky’s most recent book is Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal (Beacon Press, 2014). She is professor of history and coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts.

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Dec 10, 2017
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Op-Ed
Environment & Health

The United States Is Exceptional — Just Not in the Ways Any of Us Should Want

The U.S. has emitted more greenhouse gases over time than any other country.
by
Aviva Chomsky,
TomDispatch
March 27, 2022
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Op-Ed
Immigration

Migration Is Not a “Crisis.” It’s Survival and Resistance to Ongoing Genocide.

Biden’s plan for more military and private development aid won’t stop migration or help Central America.
by
Aviva Chomsky,
TomDispatch
July 19, 2021
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Op-Ed
Immigration

Biden’s Promise of US “Leadership” in Central America Has an Ominous Ring

Biden’s plan promotes an old economic development model that has long benefited U.S. corporations.
by
Aviva Chomsky,
TomDispatch
March 31, 2021
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News Analysis
Environment & Health

The Green New Deal Has Sparked a Necessary Conversation — Let’s Keep It Going

From environmental groups to unions, we need all hands on deck to confront planetary crisis.
by
Aviva Chomsky,
TomDispatch
August 6, 2019
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News Analysis
Human Rights

Talking Sense About Immigration: Rejecting the “Good Guy” vs. “Bad Guy” Narrative

It’s time to challenge the notion that immigrants in particular can be divided into deserving good guys and undeserving bad guys.
by
Aviva Chomsky,
TomDispatch
March 13, 2018
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News Analysis

How Bill Clinton and Barack Obama Laid the Groundwork for Trump’s Immigration Policies

The Trump administration’s multipronged approach to immigration relies on the criminalization of immigrants.
by
Aviva Chomsky,
TomDispatch
April 25, 2017
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News Analysis

Is Trump an Aberration? The Violent History of the “Nation of Immigrants“

The United States is still deporting Native people.
by
Aviva Chomsky,
TomDispatch
September 13, 2016
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News Analysis
Racial Justice

Student Protest, the Black Lives Matter Movement and the Rise of the Corporate University

There are ways in which a diversity agenda aligns with neoliberal politics.
by
Aviva Chomsky,
TomDispatch
May 22, 2016
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News Analysis

All the News That’s Fit to Print: How the Media Hide Undocumented Workers

The system connects some of the most intimate aspects of our daily lives with workers whose very existence is then erased or demonized in the public sphere.
by
Aviva Chomsky,
TomDispatch
February 4, 2016
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Excerpt

“Illegal Immigration” Is a Policy Used to Exclude and Exploit

Aviva Chomsky explores how prejudice and the exploitation of inexpensive labor increasingly shaped US immigration policy in an excerpt from her book,
by
Aviva Chomsky,
Beacon Press
September 5, 2014
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