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English
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One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martinez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he garnered from two years spent traveling up and...
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Crónicas Anagrama volume 118
Physical Desc
144 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuenta diez historias centradas en los más vulnerables: los niños. En 2016, el autor entrevistó en Nueva York y Los Angeles a diez inmigrantes que entraron en Estados Unidos entre 2011 y 2014 con la intención de reunirse con sus familias. Cuando cruzaron la frontera tenían entre diez y diecisiete años y procedían de El Salvador, Honduras y Guatemala. Este es un libro que pretende dar voz a quienes no la tienen, poner rostro a las frías cifras...
Physical Desc
xxii, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Migrants, refugees and deportees live through harrowing situations, yet not much is widely known about their experiences. Politicians and commentators mischaracterize and demonize, herald border crises, and speculate about who people are and how they live. This book reflects a desire to communicate their perspectives and experiences. Each one of them goes through the emotional and psychological intensity of alternating motion and stillness. They...
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