Summer 2005 - Boston Review

Summer 2005

Immigration and work in the global economy: Jacqueline Bhabha on protecting rights, not borders; Jennifer Gordon on organizing workers across country lines; Joseph H. Carens on what we owe people who stay. Howard Zinn on myths of American exceptionalism; Noam Chomsky explores the universals of language and rights; James Longebach on John Ashbery.

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Crossing the Border

Reforming Immigration Policy

START BY PROTECTING RIGHTS, NOT BORDERS
JACQUELINE BHABHA

American Sweatshops

ORGANIZING WORKERS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
JENNIFER GORDON

On Belonging

WHAT WE OWE PEOPLE WHO STAY
JOSEPH H. CARENS

Essays

What We Know

On the universals of language and rights

Noam Chomsky

The Power and the Glory

Myths of American exceptionalism
Howard Zinn

Fear No Freedom

The human-rights movement’s dilemma
William F. Schulz

No Peace, No War

Have international donors failed Sri Lanka’s most vulnerable?
Alan Keenan

Dreamoirs

Marian Marzynski

On Poetry

Poetry Is Poetry

On John Ashbery
James Longenbach

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