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Hidden in the heartland : the new wave of immigrants and the challenge to America / Nancy Brown Diggs.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)eBook Diversity & Ethnic Studies Collection Available online
eBook Diversity & Ethnic Studies Collection- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Diggs, Nancy Brown.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Migrant labor--United States--History--21st century.
- Migrant labor.
- Human rights--United States--History--21st century.
- Human rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (199 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As other teens returned home from school, thirteen-year-old José Silva headed for work at a restaurant, where he would remain until 2:00 a.m. Francisca Herrera, a tomato picker, was exposed to pesticides while she was pregnant and gave birth to a baby without arms or legs. Silva and Herrera immigrated illegally to the United States, and their experiences are far from unique. In this comprehensive, balanced overview of the immigration crisis, Nancy Brown Diggs examines the abusive, unethical conditions under which many immigrants work, and explores how what was once a border problem now exte
- Contents:
- Getting here
- Working here
- Strangers in a strange land
- Living here
- Community reaction
- Law and disorder
- Looking back
- Mexico
- Other countries
- The good news.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-62895-081-1
- 1-60917-132-2
- OCLC:
- 774285432
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