Dan Stageman
- “These Illegals”: Immigrants as Criminals
and Commodities in the American Free Market
(fall2011)
“In the case of unauthorized immigrants, the prevailing model for labor exploitation, throughout most of the 1990s and into the 2000s, required a relatively consistent balance amongst a host of economic and social factors. It required that a vague suspicion or generalized cultural distaste dominate popular discourse about unauthorized immigration, but it also required that most Americans thought little enough about issues of labor (or themselves as laborers) to take no more than a passing interest in this discourse.”