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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells a story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers, who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife. Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. With illustrations from the movie starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.
Author
Publisher
Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
In this original and ground -breaking work, Tomas Rovera documents through fiction the lives and peregrinations of the Mexian-American migrant workers of the 40's and 50's. Through a child's vision and a myriad of migrant voices, a compelling American drama unfolds. Rooted tin a haunting reality, this American novel will stand as monument to a proud people's indefatigable search for a better tomorrow.
Series
Publisher
Pluto Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Offers a wide range of new grassroots perspectives on global migrant labour organising today. From diverse workers' organisations in South Africa to migrant worker resistance in the Gulf, from forest workers in the Czech Republic to domestic workers' unions in Hong Kong, this book brings together a wealth of lived experiences and hidden struggles for the first time. Just Work? proves that migrant workers are finding innovative ways of resisting exploitation...
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota Zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those parts for home remedies, and people will do extreme things to get what they need. Some of them are...
Author
Series
Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society volume Volume 141
Publisher
Ibidem-Verlag
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
10) Bilateral agreements and memoranda of understanding on migration of low skilled workers: a review
Author
Publisher
International Labour Organization
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
13) Nomadland
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. Along the way, she meets other nomads who become mentors in the vast landscape of the American West.
16) Gordo: stories
Author
Publisher
Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"His first-ever collection of stories, Jaime Cortez's Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California, in the 1970s. A young boy named Gordo fights back tears underneath a wrestler's mask as he is forced to fight other boys and grow into his father's expectations of manhood. As he comes of age, Gordo learns about sex, poverty, and discovers the wrenching divides between documented and undocumented immigrants. Fat Cookie, high schooler...
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