Dying to live
Subtitle: a story of U.S. immigration in an age of global apartheid
By: text by Joseph Nevins ; photos by Mizue Aizeki.
Contributors: Aizeki, Mizue.
Publisher: Open Media/City Lights Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780872864863
Subjects: Human smuggling -- Mexican-American Border Region; Immigrants -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Death; Illegal aliens -- Crimes against -- Mexican-American Border Region; Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects; Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions
Description: Tells the story of Julio Gallegos, one of countless immigrants, attempted to reunite with his family in Los Angeles and died of dehydration while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in California's Imperial Valley. Presents the geographic, historical, and political context of the U.S.-Mexico border that have driven and prevented Mexican migration to the United States.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the bodies; title: The desert; title: The border; title: Juchipila, MexUSA; title: Beyond the boundary.