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Author | : Patrick Dearen |
Publisher | : Speaking Volumes |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1645407586 |
Spur Award-Winning Author A story that could have come out of today’s headlines, this revised edition of the acclaimed novel explores a Mexican national’s desperate attempt to provide for his family. Ricardo has known only poverty in Mexico, but he dreams of a better life in the United States. He enlists a “coyote” to smuggle him across the Rio Grande, a river that separates not only one nation from another, but one world from another. The Illegal Man is also the story of Ann Rawlings, a recent widow struggling to preserve her West Texas ranch. There is a troubled Border Patrolman and her bigoted foreman, who considers Mexican ranch hands to be little more than animals. For Ricardo, it’s a world in which he will suffer hardship and indignity, but one he will gladly endure to support his family. The Illegal Man grew out of a newspaper series by Patrick Dearen, who interviewed Mexican and American officials and accompanied Border Patrolmen along the Rio Grande. He based his character Ricardo on an actual Mexican national he interviewed on a West Texas ranch. “A warm, gripping novel that explores a subject of intense interest to all Americans. Wonderfully told, this novel should endure.” —Norman Zollinger, two-time Spur Award winner. “A vivid description of what a common man goes through seeking work in a different country than his own. It is a powerful story filled with adventure, sadness, persecution, and loneliness.” —San Angelo (Texas) Standard-Times. “Dearen's writing is so perfect, so descriptive, so charged with emotion, it sucks the reader into the very marrow of the story. . . Stretches the mind and the heart as the good and the bad in life play out on its pages . . . It is a good story: a story of love, of justice, and of redemption.” —Permian Historical Annual. “A beautifully written story that speaks eloquently.” —Roundup Magazine.
Author | : Marc Hopkins |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2000-12-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0595165419 |
When David and Rick, Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) agents, begin a routine investigation of a local restuarant they expected another routine day. What they found was John Davis. As the FBI closed in they raced to discover who he really was. But before they would discover the truth about John Davis they would have to examine their partnership and their beliefs.
Author | : Lawrence Hill |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2016-01-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393285464 |
“A gripping political thriller readers may find hard to put down.”—Dallas Morning News Keita Ali is an elite runner living in Zantoroland, a poor, fictional island that is erupting in political violence. When his father, a journalist, is murdered, Keita escapes to the wealthy nation of Freedom State—an imagined country much like our own. A stateless refugee without documentation, Keita must hide from the authorities even as he races marathons to support himself and ransom his sister who has been kidnapped. This tension-filled novel by the best-selling author of Someone Knows My Name is an astute exploration of dislocation, starting all over again, and the desperate need for home and community.
Author | : Virginia Gayl Salazar |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2014-11-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 149174474X |
Jos and his wife Elmira have everything a young couple want in this world: love, a home and family, and good health to work and feed themselves. They believe God cares for them. Then Enrique the town bully decides he wants a wife and looks around for one. He looks on Elmira as the most beautiful woman in his community and goes after her. Enrique sets in motion the fear that forces Jos to leave his beloved wife and children. He runs to the United States, the land of promise.
Author | : Juan Muhammed Kim Esq |
Publisher | : Penetrating Mind Flame |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2008-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1438264313 |
The purported guidebook used by tens of millions of illegal immigrants to enter the United States successfully and prosper once there, a satire on Americans who have lost control of their borders and not on foreigners.
Author | : Robert W. Heimburger |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 110717662X |
A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.
Author | : Jose Angel N. |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2014-02-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0252096185 |
A day after José Ángel N. first crossed the United States border from Mexico, he was caught and then released onto the streets of Tijuana. Undeterred, N. crawled back through a tunnel to San Diego, where he entered the United States to stay. Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant is his timely and compelling memoir of building a new life in America. Arriving in the 1990s with a ninth grade education, N. traveled to Chicago where he found access to ESL and GED classes. He eventually attended college and graduate school and became a professional translator. Despite having a well-paying job, N. was isolated by a lack of legal documentation. Travel concerns made promotions impossible. The simple act of purchasing his girlfriend a beer at a Cubs baseball game caused embarrassment and shame when N. couldn't produce a valid ID. A frustrating contradiction, N. lived in a luxury high-rise condo but couldn't fully live the American dream. He did, however, find solace in the one gift America gave him–-his education. Ultimately, N.'s is the story of the triumph of education over adversity. In Illegal, he debunks the stereotype that undocumented immigrants are freeloaders without access to education or opportunity for advancement. With bravery and honesty, N. details the constraints, deceptions, and humiliations that characterize alien life "amid the shadows."
Author | : José Olivarez |
Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 2018-09-04 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1608469557 |
“Olivarez steps into the ‘inbetween’ standing between Mexico and America in these compelling, emotional poems. Written with humor and sincerity” (Newsweek). Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek and NPR. In this “devastating debut” (Publishers Weekly), poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios, and everything in between. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between. Combining wry humor with potent emotional force, Olivarez takes on complex issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and immigration using an everyday language that invites the reader in, with a unique voice that makes him a poet to watch. “The son of Mexican immigrants, Olivarez celebrates his Mexican-American identity and examines how those two sides conflict in a striking collection of poems.” —USA Today
Author | : Arjen Leerkes |
Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9089640495 |
Illegal Residence and Public Safety in the Netherlands is een onderzoek naar de gevolgen van de steeds drastischere maatregelen om illegaal verblijf in Nederland tegen te gaan. EU-lidstaten als Nederland hanteren steeds zwaardere voorwaarden voor immigratie vanuit niet-westerse landen en niet-Europese landen. Arjen Leerkes onderzocht in hoeverre het verblijf en de migratie van illegale immigranten gevolgen hebben voor de publieke veiligheid en criminaliteit in Nederland. Zijn illegale immigranten eerder geneigd tot criminaliteit of weerhoudt hun juridische status hen er juist van?
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1 |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |