Background
Aviva Chomsky was born on April 30, 1957 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, into the family of Avram Noam and Carol Doris (Schatz) Chomsky.
University of California, Berkeley, California, United States
Aviva Chomsky received her education at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned Bachelor of Arts in 1982, Master of Arts in 1985, and Doctor of Philosophy in 1990.
A Conversation with Aviva Chomsky
Prof Aviva Chomsky of Salem University in Massachusetts, who was speaking in Dublin
Aviva Chomsky - "Criminalization, Immigration, and Citizenship in the 21st Century"
(In the late nineteenth century, several U.S.-based compan...)
In the late nineteenth century, several U.S.-based companies, which merged into the United Fruit Company in 1899, began to build railroads and cultivate bananas in Costa Rica's Atlantic Coast province of Limon, recruiting mainly Jamaican workers. The society that developed in Limon was an English-speaking enclave of white North American managers and black West Indian workers, with a culture and history distinct from that of the rest of Costa Rica.
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1996
(The Profits of Extermination uncovers the costs of foreig...)
The Profits of Extermination uncovers the costs of foreign investment, privatization and neo-liberalism in Colombia. US corporations have manipulated the law and worked hand in hand with right-wing death squads and the US government to ensure profits at the cost of the rights and lives of workers, peasants and miners. Colombia is the third-largest recipient of US military aid.
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2005
(Exploring globalization from a labor history perspective,...)
Exploring globalization from a labor history perspective, Aviva Chomsky provides historically grounded analyses of migration, labor-management collaboration, and the mobility of capital. She illuminates the dynamics of these movements through case studies set mostly in New England and Colombia.
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2008
(Explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, soc...)
Explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic and historical context  In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy, she probes how people, especially Mexican and Central Americans, have been assigned this status—and to what ends.
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2014
(Revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book w...)
Revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book which demystifies twenty-one of the most widespread myths and beliefs about immigrants and immigrations. Aviva Chomsky dismantles twenty-one of the most widespread and pernicious myths and beliefs about immigrants and immigration in this incisive book.
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2018
Aviva Chomsky was born on April 30, 1957 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, into the family of Avram Noam and Carol Doris (Schatz) Chomsky.
Aviva Chomsky received her education at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1982, a Master of Arts in 1985, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1990.
Between 1976 and 1977, Chomsky worked for the United Farm Workers union. She credited this experience with sparking her "interest in the Spanish language, in migrant workers and immigration, in labor history, in social movements and labor organizing, in multinationals and their workers, in how global economic forces affect individuals, and how people collectively organize for social change." She began teaching at Bates College, and became an associate professor of history at Salem State College in 1997, the Coordinator of Latin American Studies in 1999, and a full professor in 2002.
Chomsky's book "West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica 1870 – 1940" describes the history of the United Fruit Company, formed in 1899 from the merger of multiple US-based companies that built railroads and cultivated bananas on the Atlantic Coast of Costa Rica. It also shows how the workers, including many Jamaicans originally of African descent, developed their own parallel socioeconomic system.
(Explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, soc...)
2014(Exploring globalization from a labor history perspective,...)
2008(Revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book w...)
2018(The Profits of Extermination uncovers the costs of foreig...)
2005(In the late nineteenth century, several U.S.-based compan...)
1996Chomsky has been active in Latin American solidarity and immigrants’ rights issues since the 1980s. Her articles on immigration rights have appeared in The Nation, HuffPost and TomDispatch, a project of The Nation Institute, and she has delivered lectures across the world on labor rights and immigration rights.
Aviva married Jon Aske on October 31, 1986.