Crossing Over A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail

Name: Crossing Over A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
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ISBN: 9781250026729

ISBN-10: 1250026725

ISBN-13: 9781250026729

Edition: 2013

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 Chavez clan, an extended Mexican family who lost three sons in a tragic border accident. Martinez follows the migrants' progress from their small southern Mexican town of Cheran to California, Wisconsin, and Missouri where far from joining the melting pot, Martinez argues, the seven million migrants in the U.S. are creating a new culture that will alter both Mexico and the…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 6/25/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
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


Afterword


Acknowledgments