My dad talked to me the other night about how underpaid immigrant labor is like slavery, and how it has spread all over the world. How does this change the definition of citizenship?
How is citizenship as a social and economic privilege over other residents of a country any different than slavery?
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How is citizenship as a social and economic privilege over other residents of a country any different than slavery?
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posted by samueldee at 9:44 AM
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I actually don't see them as very similar.
A couple differences immediately jump to mind.
1) Immigrants choose to travel to the country they reside in.
2) Immigrants are allowed to leave at any time.
3) Immigrants (in the USA) remit billions of dollars back to their countries thus benefiting the economies of their home countries.
Anybody working in a capitalist system is nothing but a wage slave. Unfortunately undocumented immigrants are at the bottom of this system. Not only are they threatened like all of us by the risks and instability of the job market but their control is further reduced by having to use false pretenses to gain employment. Not to mention that their labor is generally limited to unskilled labor and service industries. Even if they are here legally and they have an education they are usually limited in their ability to gain skilled/professional employment by language barriers or lack of certifications valid in the U.S.
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