Out of the sea and into the fire
Subtitle: immigration from Latin America to the U.S. in the global age
By: Kari Lydersen.
Publisher: Common Courage Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Monroe, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions; Hispanic Americans -- Biography; Immigrants -- United States; United States -- Emigration and immigration; Latin America -- Emigration and immigration
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-276).
Table of contents: title: Another piece in the puzzle: Oaxacan fishermen and farmers anticipate Plan Puebla-Pananma; title: Who is destroying the jungle? Politics and preservation in Montes Azules, Chiapas; title: Ecuador and the almighty dollar; title: From the mountains to the sea: the fight for land in Honduras; title: "Killer Coke": global refresher or represser?; title: Teatro Trono: Bolivians act out; title: Trashing the border, taking human lives: the residue of free trade and industry in Tijuana; title: Las Desaparecidas: the lost women of Ciudad Juarez; title: Poisonous profits: the malignant underside of Reynosa's Maquila zone; title: Casualties of war: the border's death zone; title: Picking mushrooms and killing cows: immigration in small town Illinois; title: In the shadows of 'America's finest city': the ripple effects of Sept. 11 in San Diego; title: Not in my backyard: the Albany Park Workers Center; title: Pulling injustice up by the roots: the coalition of Immokalee workers; title: Longing for home, hoping to stay: an immigrant's life in Nebraska; title: Jose Olivia: coming full circle; title: Alexy Lanza: "wherever I see injustice ... "; title: Neris Gonzalez: the seeds of change.