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Voices from the fields
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S. Beth Atkin |
Photographs, poems, and interviews with children reveal the hardships and hopes of Mexican American migrant farm workers and their families. |
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Waiting for a wide horse sky
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Elaine Kennedy |
The plight of migrant factory workers in South Korea leads Katoomba-based author Elaine Kennedy to question her own motives for travel and working in Daegu. Heartbreaking and surprisingly intimate, K… |
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Immigrants, integration and cities
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Contains a selection of papers prepared for an experts' meeting held in Paris, March 18-19, 1996, for the purpose of providing a better understanding of the relationship between immigration and urban… |
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The girl from Kathmandu
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Cam Simpson |
A heart-rending narrative that moves from the Himalayas to the Middle East to Houston and culminates in an epic court battle, this is a story of death and life - of the war in Iraq, the killings of t… |
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A long December
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Donald Harstad |
The Nation County (Iowa) sheriff's department slips into a morass of murder and terrorism. What starts out as a simple investigation of a shooting out on a farm, suddenly develops much deeper implica… |
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Disposable domestics
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Grace Chang |
The prevailing image of migrants, particular women of color, is that of a drain on "our" resources. Grace Chang's vital account of migrant women-- frequently undocumented and disenfranchised, working… |
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Tortillas and tomatoes
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Tanya Basok |
"In Tortillas and Tomatoes Tanya Basok exposes the mechanisms that make Mexican seasonal workers unfree. She shows that workers are unable to refuse employer demands for their labour because of econo… |
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Waiting for the Barbarians
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J. M. Coetzee |
For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts… |
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Ghosts
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César Aira |
"Ghosts revolves around an immigrant worker's family squatting on the haunted construction site of a luxury condominium building. All of the workmen and their wives and children see the ghosts, who l… |
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