The world of Mexican migrants : the rock and the hard place / Judith Adler Hellman.
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TextPublication details: New York : New Press : Distributed by W. W. Norton & Co., 2008.Description: xxiv, 256 p. : map ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781565848382 (hc.)
- 1565848381 (hc.)
- Mexican Americans -- Interviews
- Immigrants -- United States -- Interviews
- Mexicans -- Interviews
- Mexican Americans -- Social conditions -- Anecdotes
- Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- Anecdotes
- Migrant labor -- United States -- Anecdotes
- Migrant labor -- Mexico -- Anecdotes
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Anecdotes
- Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Anecdotes
- E184.M5 H385 2008
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Includes bibliographical references.
1: The rock -- Beto: those not with us -- Nopal verde: the life of a town -- San Rafael: a life of cooperation -- Marta: the tyranny of in-laws -- Dolores: "we only speak on Sundays" -- 2: The journey -- Tomás: traveling in style -- Elena: "absolutely still" -- Angel: cat and mouse -- Fernando: "a snake's breakfast" -- The Tucson consulate -- No more deaths -- Shanti and Daniel -- "Walking around, living their lives" -- 3: The hard place -- Carlos: names and networks -- Sara: "ten words in ten years" -- Francisco: the hardest place -- 4: To stay or to return home -- Julio: a quick exit -- Manuel: life after amnesty -- Patricia: weighing the good and the bad.