Communities without borders : images and voices from the world of migration / David Bacon ; forewords by Carlos Muñoz Jr. and Douglas Harper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bacon, David, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers, Mexican--California.

Foreign workers, Mexican.

Foreign workers, Guatemalan--Nebraska.

Foreign workers, Guatemalan.

Immigrants--California--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Noncitizens--California--Social conditions.

Noncitizens.

Emigration and immigration.

Social conditions.

California.

Immigrants--Nebraska--Social conditions.

Noncitizens--Nebraska--Social conditions.

Nebraska.

Transnationalism.

Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--Emigration and immigration.

Oaxaca (Mexico : State).

Guatemala--Emigration and immigration.

Guatemala.

California--Emigration and immigration.

Nebraska--Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : ILR Press, 2006.

Summary:

In his stunning work of photojournalism and oral history, Bacon documents the new reality of the migrant experience: the creation of transnational communities. 148 halftones.

Contents:

Foreword on the Text / Carlos Munoz Jr. ix

Foreword on the Photography / Douglas Harper xi

Part 1 Globalizing Farm Labor: Oaxacans Create a New Kind of Cross-Border Community 1

Fausto Lopez: The man in the reeds 38

Lorenzo Oropeza: A community organizer 40

Rufino Dominguez: Organizing across the border 43

Raul Dominguez: A grape worker 46

Irma Luna: Keeping Mixteco alive 47

Oralia Maceda: Changing the way Mixtecos see women and young people 49

Jorge Giron Cortez and Margarita de Giron: Sacrificing for your family 52

Florentina Sandoval-Garcia: Why my father went to prison 56

Salomon Luis Alvarado-Juarez: The law student 57

Raul Ramirez Baena: The human rights prosecutor 59

Paola Angela Galindo: Her daughter died in the desert 62

Centolia Maldonado: How I became conscious 63

Romualdo Juan Gutierrez Cortez: Running for office and getting arrested 65

Part 2 Transforming Nebraska: Guatemalan and Mexican Meatpacking Workers-Indigenous Culture and Social Movements in a Cross-Border Community 69

Sergio Sosa: An immigrant organizer 106

Concepcion Vargas: A meatpacking worker 109

Manuel Flores: Chased from work by the migra 111

Marcela Cervantes: Organizing women in the meatpacking plants 113

Tiberio Chavez: Always look for something better 116

Olga Espinoza: I say I can do everything 118

Eleuterio Valadez: Twenty-five years on the skin line 120

Gustavo: The story of a raid 122

Jose Guzman: Hiding in the air-conditioning duct 123

Antonio Hernandez: The struggle to get papers 124

Jesus Martinez: We must not forget the people of Guatemala 128

Domingo Cristobal Diego: We are citizens of the world 129

Francisco Gaspar: Bringing marimbas to Nebraska 130

Juan Mateo Juandiego: The marimba maker 133

Mateo Juandiego: The son who didn't make marimbas 134

Omar: The story of a coyote 137

Nicolas Francisco: The hotel owner 139

Alonso de Alonso Pedro and Octavio Andres Esteban: Two brothers 140

Emilia Juanantonio: Women are worth more than men 141

Lorenzo Francisco: My children need my presence 143

Mateo Pedro Bartolo: The church council president 146

Bishop Rodolfo Bobadilla: The bishop of Huehuetenango 147

Part 3 Miners and Mayos: Gold and Copper Mining Towns and Indigenous Mayo Communities in Northern Sonora 149

Antonio Rivera Murrieta: I am transnational 174

Alfredo Figueroa: Forming a Chicano identity 176

Juan Gonzales: A blacklisted miner 180

Javier Canizares: A Cananea striker 181

Gabriel Parra Cortez: A miners' union leader 183

Jerry Acosta: Bringing food across the border to help the strikers 184

Genaro Sanchez Camacho: I was there when the caravan arrived 186

Moises Espinoza Valenzuela: Mining families worked on both sides of the border 186

Jesus Morales Tapia: A mountain of tailings 188

Hector Moroyoqui Juzcameya: A Mayo high school teacher 191

Marina Moroyoqui Ramirez: The delegate of a Mayo community 193

Clemente Lopez Valenzuela: The president of the fiestas 194

Ismael Cupicio Cota: Mexico is not poor 195

Pamfilo Lopez Ozuna: The deer dancer 197

Part 4 Braceros and Guest Workers: A Hard Past, A Harder Future 201

Agustin Ramirez: A union organizer 220

Rigoberto Garcia Perez: A bracero 224

Celestino and Amelia Garcia: A bracero and his wife 226

Eusebio Melero: From bracero to undocumented 228

Edilberto Morales: A survivor of a terrible accident 231

Florinda Sanchez Perez and Natividad Maldonado Domingo: Two women widowed by an accident 232

Esteban: A modern-day bracero 234.

ISBN:

0801444993

0801473071

OCLC:

69593986

Publisher Number:

9780801444999

9780801473074