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Voice of witnessSummary: A feature documentary that follows unaccompanied child migrants on their journey through Mexico as they try to reach the United States. We follow children like Olga and Freddy, 9-year old Hondurans, who are trying to reach their parents in the US. Children like Jose, a 10-year old El Salvadoran, who has been abandoned by smugglers and ends up alone in a Mexican detention center, and Kevin, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bullfrog Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHI1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WHI
Chomsky, Aviva
Summary: "This book looks at the role illegality or undocumentedness plays in our society and economy. It shows how the status was created, and how and why people, especially Mexicans and Central Americans, have been assigned this status. The first three chapterslook at the histories of social exclusion. One looks specifically at the Mexican and Guatemalan contexts to understand why such large numbers...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.137 CHOMarkham, Lauren
Summary: "The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California--fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong. Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, Ernesto Flores had always had a fascination with the United States, the faraway land of skyscrapers and Nikes, while his identical twin, Raul, never felt that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MARSterling, Terry Greene.
Summary: Arizona's violent border is the busiest cross-over point for illegal immigants to the United States. No state is as hostile to undocumented immigrants as Arizona, yet the city of Phoenix is home to thousands of people who live in the shadows. Sterling brings to light the invisible people who continue to live and work there despite all the hardships involved, and she exposes the fabric of a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.137 STESummary: "They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita (Alone, Alone) is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells--in their own words--the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United States. Fifteen narrators describe why they fled their homes, what happened on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 SOLSummary: In the past decade, a large influx of immigrants has expanded beyond traditional polyglot cities. This has produced a backlash, especially since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, made immigration a national security issue. Some argue that the U.S. economy demands immigrant labor, and by denying these workers legal status, the government is fostering a shadow sub-class subject to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The human and drug trafficking across the border between the United States and Mexico has been called the illegal immigration invasion. The lives of five individuals affected by the rise in illegal immigration are documented.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BORChomsky, Aviva
Summary: "Places Central American migration to the United States in the context of the region's history of conquest, colonialism, revolution, and neoliberalism, looking especially at the revolutionary experiments of the 1980s and their aftermath"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.8 CHOKuklin, Susan
Summary: Documents the stories of nine undocumented immigrants to the United States, fleeing violence and seeking freedom, detailing how each youth left their homelands to start a new life in America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019