| Edition |
English-language edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 267 pages : color illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"First published as Los migrantes que no importan [copyrighted] Icaria Editorial 2010"--Title page verso. |
| Summary |
"One day a couple of years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote, dusty border towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. Over half of them were never heard from again. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar at the time of the abduction, and his story of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he tells after spending two years traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America to the US border. More than a quarter of a million Central Americans alone make this increasingly dangerous journey each year, and last year 18,000 of them were kidnapped. Martínez writes in beautiful, lyrical prose about clinging to the tops of freight trains; finding respite, work and hardship in shelters and brothels; and riding shotgun with the border patrol. Here is the first book to illuminate this harsh mass migration in the age of the narcotraficantes"--Publisher description. |
| Local Note |
Rider University Libraries acknowledges the biased and pejorative nature of the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) “Aliens” “Alien…” and "Illegal aliens" to refer to noncitizens and undocumented immigrants, respectively--and the harm it causes. While a change in terminology was approved by the Library of Congress in 2016, it was not enacted due to opposition by the 115th Congress (2017). As Rider University Libraries uses LCSH as its standard vocabulary, we are currently investigating how to best enact alternative terminology that will still ensure access to all materials on this topic. |
| Subject |
Illegal immigration -- Mexico.
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Illegal immigration. |
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Mexico. |
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Central Americans -- Mexico.
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Central Americans. |
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Immigrants -- Mexico.
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Immigrants. |
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Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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Emigration and immigration. |
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Social aspects. |
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Central America -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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Central America. |
| Added Title |
Migrantes que no importan. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013030836
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| ISBN |
9781781681329 (hardback) |
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1781681325 (hardback) |
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