They never come back : a story of undocumented workers from Mexico

They never come back : a story of undocumented workers from Mexico /

For Mexicans on both sides of the border, the migrant experience changed significantly during the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. In this book, the author draws on the experiences of Indigenous people from a region in the Mexican state of Guerrero to explore the i...

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Main Author: Schryer, Frans J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca ; London : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2014
Subjects:
Foreign workers, Mexican > United States > Social conditions.
Foreign workers, Mexican > United States > Economic conditions.
Noncitizens > United States > Social conditions.
Noncitizens > United States > Economic conditions.
Noncitizens > Social conditions.
Illegal immigration > United States.
Illegal immigration.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • What happened to the Mexican miracle?
  • Struggling to get ahead
  • No one lives there
  • I feel sorry for them
  • It used to be easy to cross the border
  • In the U.S. all you do is work
  • For me it is about the same
  • Mexicans are good workers
  • We can never hang out with our friends
  • They only send you back if you are bad
  • We must carry on our ancestors' traditions
  • I don't have much in common with my cousin
  • The system is broken
  • Final remarks.

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