Crossing Over A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail

Name: Crossing Over A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
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ISBN: 9780312421236

ISBN-10: 0312421230

ISBN-13: 9780312421236

Edition: 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Ruben Martinez, Rubï¿½n Martï¿½nez

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The U.S.-Mexican border is one of the most permeable boundaries in the world, breached daily by Mexicans in search of work. Thousands die crossing the line and those who reach "the other side" are branded illegals, undocumented and unprotected. Crossing Over puts a human face on the phenomenon, following the exodus of the Chaacute;vez clan, an extended Mexican family who lost three sons in a tragic border accident. Martiacute;nez follows the migrants' progress from their small southern Mexican town of Cheraacute;n to California, Wisconsin, and Missouri where far from joining the melting pot, Martiacute;nez argues, the seven million migrants in the U.S. are creating a new culture that will…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 9/7/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Ruben Martinez, an Emmy Award-winning journalist and poet, is associate editor at Pacific News Service and a correspondent for PBS's religion and ethics news weekly. Author of The Other Side, he has appeared as a commentator on Nightline, Frontline and CNN. He lives in Los Angeles.



Prologue: The Passion



Points of Departure



Home



Paisanos



Family



Waiting



Highland Hip Hop



Fiesta



Harvest



Rosa's Journey



Another Country



The Line



Warren, Arkansas



Princes of Norwalk



St. Louis, Missouri



Strawberry Fields Forever


Epilogue


Acknowledgements