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Author : Claud Garner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494049638
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Wetback written by Claud Garner and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.
Author : Marcos Antonio Hernandez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732003569
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Education of a Wetback written by Marcos Antonio Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was never Toño's plan to leave El Salvador behind. Toño has spent his entire life rising hours before dawn to feed the animals and mind the farm of his father Jose Angel. He wants nothing more than a plot of land and a farm of his own. And he knows exactly how to get it: make his way across the Mexican border to the United States of America, where he'll earn enough money to help his family and himself. It's like Jose Angel says the day Toño leaves: "You always have a home to come back to." But the year is 1979. And the Salvadoran Civil War is about to begin. Now Toño is working under the table for jewelers and roofers and cohabitating with his fellow immigrants, working every moment he can to secure his plans. He's searching for a woman who might help him start his own family in El Salvador, and abandoning those who won't sacrifice their dreams for his-all the while ignoring his father's warnings of the chaos back home. What happens when a dream disappears? In uncertain circumstances in an unfamiliar country, can you find another life to fight for? Marcos Antonio Hernandez's The Education of a Wetback is a moving story of the haphazard, unexpected search for the American dream.
Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781839985768
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Up Against the Wall written by Peter Laufer and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a step-by-step blueprint of radical proposals for the U.S.-Mexican border that go far beyond traditional initiatives to ease restrictions on immigration. Up Against the Wall provides the background to understanding how the border has become a fraud, resulting in nothing more than the criminalization of Mexican and other migrants. The book argues that the border with Mexico should be completely open for Mexicans wishing to travel north.
Author : Juan R. Garcia
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Operation Wetback written by Juan R. Garcia and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1980-12-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob Monty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947368873
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (688 download)
Download or read book The Sons of Wetbacks written by Jacob Monty and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigrants are vital to America's economy and national security. They make our food. They care for the ill, injured, and elderly in our healthcare system. They contribute to our country's technological might. And yet, our immigration system is fundamentally broken. Millions of immigrants live lives of uncertainty and fear. Meanwhile, businesses are baffled by convoluted hiring practices. Worst of all, scores of DACA kids contribute faithfully to their adopted country without any clear path to citizenship. In The Sons of Wetbacks, Texas attorney and third-generation Mexican-American Jacob Montilijo Monty offers a compelling conservative case for immigration reform. While many on the right oppose immigration reform because of a belief that all Latinos are liberals, this couldn't be further from the truth. Rather, Latinos put great value on faith, family, and private enterprise, making them a natural fit for the GOP. The author lays out a clearly articulated approach to reform immigration in a manner that is pragmatic, fair and in line with the principles of conservatism. Monty says, "We're not talking about amnesty. The bad hombres should be sent back. But, Latino immigrants are here to work. Let's vet them and get them working with legitimate papers. It would go a long way to making America great again."
Author : Adam Goodman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691204209
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Deportation Machine written by Adam Goodman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By most accounts, the United States has deported around five million people since 1882-but this includes only what the federal government calls "formal deportations." "Voluntary departures," where undocumented immigrants who have been detained agree to leave within a specified time period, and "self-deportations," where undocumented immigrants leave because legal structures in the United States have made their lives too difficult and frightening, together constitute 90% of the undocumented immigrants who have been expelled by the federal government. This brings the number of deportees to fifty-six million. These forms of deportation rely on threats and coercion created at the federal, state, and local levels, using large-scale publicity campaigns, the fear of immigration raids, and detentions to cost-effectively push people out of the country. Here, Adam Goodman traces a comprehensive history of American deportation policies from 1882 to the present and near future. He shows that ome of the country's largest deportation operations expelled hundreds of thousands of people almost exclusively through the use of voluntary departures and through carefully-planned fear campaigns that terrified undocumented immigrants through newspaper, radio, and television publicity. These deportation efforts have disproportionately targeted Mexican immigrants, who make up half of non-citizens but 90% of deportees. Goodman examines the political economy of these deportation operations, arguing that they run on private transportation companies, corrupt public-private relations, and the creation of fear-based internal borders for long-term undocumented residents. He grounds his conclusions in over four years of research in English- and Spanish-language archives and twenty-five oral histories conducted with both immigration officials and immigrants-revealing for the first time the true magnitude and deep historical roots of anti-immigrant policy in the United Statesws that s
Author : Ron Arias
Publisher : Arte Público Press
ISBN 13 : 1518501001
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (185 download)
Download or read book The Wetback and Other Stories written by Ron Arias and published by Arte Público Press. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the title story, Mrs. Rentería shouts, “David is mine!” as she and her neighbors gather about the dead but handsome young man found in the dry riverbed next to their homes in a Los Angeles barrio. “Since when is his name David?” someone asks, and soon everyone is arguing about the mysterious corpse’s name, throwing out suggestions: Luis, Roberto, Antonio, Henry, Enrique, Miguel, Roy, Rafael. Many of the pieces in this collection take place in a Los Angeles neighborhood that used to be called Frog Town, now known as Elysian Valley. Ron Arias reveals the lives of his Mexican-American community: there’s Eddie Vera, who goes from school yard enforcer to jail bird and finally commando fighting in Central America; a boy named Tom, who chews his nails so incessantly that it leads to painful jalapeño chili treatments, banishment from the neighborhood school and ultimately incarceration in a school for emotionally disturbed kids; and Luisa, a young girl who can’t resist an illicit visit to Don Noriega, an old man the kids call El Mago who is known as a curandero in their neighborhood. Most of the 14 stories included in this volume were originally published in journals that no longer exist, including El Grito: A Journal of Contemporary Mexican-American Thought, Caracol and Revista Chicano-Riqueña. The author of an important novel—The Road to Tamazunchale—published during the Chicano literary movement of the 1970s, Arias was one of the first to use magic realism and connect U.S. Hispanic literature to its more popular, Latin-American cousin. The Wetback and Other Stories finally gathers together and makes available the short fiction of a pioneer in Mexican-American literature. “I felt reading these wonderful stories that I was admitted to an adjacent neighborhood, a rich culture that is another world—call it Amexica—both mysterious and magical, that is persuasive through its tenderness. My hope is that Ron Arias continues to write short stories that tell us who we are.”—Paul Theroux "The Road to Tamazunchale is one of the first achieved works of Chicano consciousness and spirit."— Library Journal
Author : Claud W. Garner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Wetback written by Claud W. Garner and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illegitimate son of an American father and a Mexican mother experiences life as an illegal alien in the U.S.
Author : Mae M. Ngai
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400850231
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Impossible Subjects written by Mae M. Ngai and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-27 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy—a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s—its statutory architecture, judicial genealogies, administrative enforcement, differential treatment of European and non-European migrants, and long-term effects. She shows that immigration restriction, particularly national-origin and numerical quotas, remapped America both by creating new categories of racial difference and by emphasizing as never before the nation's contiguous land borders and their patrol. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Author : C. Y. Lee
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Flower Drum Song written by C. Y. Lee and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2002-08-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1957, one of the first novels of the Chinese-American experience is now back in print to tie in with the Broadway revival.
Author : Jorge A. Bustamante
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The "wetback" as Deviant written by Jorge A. Bustamante and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Powerlessness: Who are the migrants? written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1942683545
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Cenzontle written by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly lyrical, imagistic debut, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo creates a nuanced narrative of life before, during, and after crossing the US/Mexico border. These poems explore the emotional fallout of immigration, the illusion of the American dream via the fallacy of the nuclear family, the latent anxieties of living in a queer brown undocumented body within a heteronormative marriage, and the ongoing search for belonging. Finding solace in the resignation to sheer possibility, these poems challenge us to question the potential ways in which two people can interact, love, give birth, and mourn—sometimes all at once.
Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816529515
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Calexico written by Peter Laufer and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These days everyone has something to say (or declaim!) about the U.S.–Mexico border. Whether it’s immigration, resource management, educational policy, or drugs, the borderlands are either the epicenter or the emblem of a current crisis facing the nation. At a time when the region has been co-opted for every possible rhetorical use, what endures is a resilient and vibrant local culture that resists easy characterization. For an honest picture of life on the border, what remains is to listen to voices that are too often drowned out: the people who actually live and work there, who make their homes and livings amid a confluence of cultures and loyalties. For many of these people, the border is less a hyphenated place than a meeting place, a merging. This aspect of the border is epitomized in the names of two cities that straddle the line: Calexico and Mexicali. A “sleepy crossroads that exists at a global flashpoint,” Calexico serves as the reference point for veteran journalist Peter Laufer’s chronicle of day-to-day life on the border. This wide-ranging, interview-driven book finds Laufer and travel companion/photographer on a weeklong road trip through the Imperial Valley and other border locales, engaging in earnest and revealing conversations with the people they meet along the way. Laufer talks to secretaries and politicians, restaurateurs and salsa dancers, poets and real estate agents about the issues that matter to them the most. What draws them to border towns? How do they feel about border security and the fences that may someday run through their backyards? Is “English-only” a realistic policy? Why have some towns flourished and others declined? What does it mean to be Mexican or American in such a place? Waitress Bonnie Peterson banters with customers in Spanish and English. Mayor Lewis Pacheco laments the role that globalization has played in his city’s labor market. Some of their anecdotes are humorous, others grim. Moreover, not everyone agrees. But this very diversity is part of the fabric of the borderlands, and these stories demand to be heard.
Author : Bruce Staffel Meador
Publisher : R & E Research Associates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book "Wetback" Labor in the Lower Rio Grande Valley written by Bruce Staffel Meador and published by R & E Research Associates. This book was released on 1973 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kelly Lytle Hernandez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520945719
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Migra! written by Kelly Lytle Hernandez and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political awareness of the tensions in U.S.-Mexico relations is rising in the twenty-first century; the American history of its treatment of illegal immigrants represents a massive failure of the promises of the American dream. This is the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its emergence as a large professional police force that continuously draws intense scrutiny and denunciations from political activism groups. To tell this story, MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Kelly Lytle Hernández dug through a gold mine of lost and unseen records and bits of biography stored in garages, closets, an abandoned factory, and in U.S. and Mexican archives. Focusing on the daily challenges of policing the Mexican border and bringing to light unexpected partners and forgotten dynamics, Migra! reveals how the U.S. Border Patrol translated the mandate for comprehensive migration control into a project of policing immigrants and undocumented “aliens” in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1404 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Powerlessness written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
