Rivermouth : a chronicle of language, faith, and migration / Alejandra Oliva.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Oliva, Alejandra, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.
• Political refugees--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
• Spanish Americans (Latin America)--United States.
• Translating and interpreting.
• United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
• United States--Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.
• Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
• Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.
• Immigrants--Social conditions.
• Political refugees--Legal status, laws, etc.
• Spanish Americans (Latin America).
• United States.

Physical Description:

297 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Astra House, [2023]

Summary:

• "Rivermouth is a polemic arguing for porous borders, a decriminalization of immigration, a more open sense of what we owe one another, and a willingness to extend radical empathy"-- Provided by publisher.
• In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a powerful chronical of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border. Having worked with asylum seekers since 2016, she knows all too well the gravity of taking someone's trauma and delivering it to the warped demands of the U.S. immigration system. As Oliva's stunning prose recounts the stories of the people she's met through her work, she also traces her family's long and fluid relationship to the border--each generation born on opposite sides of the Rio Grande.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Oliva, Alejandra, Rivermouth

ISBN:

• 9781662601699
• 1662601697

OCLC:

1346215513

Publisher Number:

99994075025