Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Voices from the fields Voices from the fields S. Beth Atkin Photographs, poems, and interviews with children reveal the hardships and hopes of Mexican American migrant farm workers and their families. OL16065842W
Waiting for a wide horse sky Waiting for a wide horse sky 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… OL16345736W
Immigrants, integration and cities Immigrants, integration and cities 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… OL18298574W
The girl from Kathmandu The girl from Kathmandu 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… OL19738349W
A long December A long December 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… OL1988757W
Disposable domestics Disposable domestics 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… OL20032380W
Tortillas and tomatoes Tortillas and tomatoes 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… OL3616794W
Waiting for the Barbarians Waiting for the Barbarians 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… OL500388W
Ghosts Ghosts 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… OL710933W