The Right to Stay Home -- Derecho de no Migrar

New America Media, News Report , David Bacon, Posted: Jul 09, 2008 Editor's Note:This June in Juxtlahuaca, Mexico -- in the heart of Oaxaca’s Mixteca region --dozens of farmers left their fields, and women weavers their looms, to declare their right to stay home. David Bacon is the author of "The Children of NAFTA" (University of California Press, 2004). He sits on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Committee of the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition. JUXTLAHUACA, OAXACA, MEXICO -– For almost half a century, migration has been the main fact of social life in hundreds of indigenous towns spread through the hills of Oaxaca, one of Mexico’s poorest states. That’s made the conditions and rights of migrants the central concern for communities like Santiago de Juxtlahuaca. Today the right to travel to seek work is a matter of... [read full story]