Professors Win Latin@/x Caucus Best Book Award

Shannon Gleeson, the ILR School’s Edmund Ezra Day Professor, and co-author Xóchitl Bada of the University of Illinois Chicago have won the 2024 Best Book Award by the American Political Science Association Latin@/x Caucus.

“Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power “ was published by University of California Press (2023).  

Gleeson will accept the award on Friday at the 2024 American Political Science Association meeting in Philadelphia.

Teaching faculty in Latina/o Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, Gleeson is the chair of ILR’s Department of Global Labor and Work. Bada is a professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago.

The book provides the political history behind binational efforts to enforce the rights of Mexican migrant workers in the United States, and the increasing role of the Mexican government in advancing the rights of their co-nationals, resulting from the demands of migrant civil society.  Gleeson and Bada, conclude the potential for a functional immigrant worker rights regime relies on a portable, universal system of justice and human rights, a robust civil society on both sides of the border, and willing and proactive local labor agencies.

The book, described here, is available to read and download online for free