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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been...
2) Lucky boy
Author
Description
"A heart-wrenching novel that gives voice to two mothers: a young undocumented Mexican woman and an Indian-American wife whose love for one lucky boy will bind their fates together Solimar Castro-Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin's doorstep in Berkeley, CA, dazed by first love found then lost, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But amid...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Cheng Liang is a young Chinese illegal immigrant living in Japan. Desperate for work, he pretends to be someone else to get a job in a traditional Japanese soba restaurant. He starts his new life living and working with the elderly soba master, but always fearing to have his real identity disclosed at any moment.
4) Desierto
Publisher
Universal PIctures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
What begins as a hopeful journey to seek a better life becomes a harrowing and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante chases a group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous US-Mexican border. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they continuously discover there's nowhere to hide from the unrelenting, merciless killer.
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B México
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Por más que lo intento ya no recuerdo la cara de mamá. En realidad, son pocas las cosas que recuerdo de ella. Se fue hace mucho tiempo y no ha cumplido su promesa de regresar por Juana y por mí. Decidí que, si ella no venía por nosotros, yo iría hacia ella. Sólo necesito saber que aún nos quiere. Dicen que el viaje es muy peligroso, pero no hay vuelta atrás, tengo que llegar a Estados Unidos con ella. Por lo menos no tengo que hacer este...
Author
Description
"Two teens--Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica--cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives--Daniel is on his way to an interview with a Yale alum, Natasha is meeting with a lawyer to try and prevent her family's deportation to Jamaica--and fall in love"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
En esta obra, la discriminación hacia los mexicanos en Estados Unidos, la violencia del sistema carcelario y la deportación de indocumentados se enriquecen con recuerdos y reflexiones sobre la vida, el arte y la filosofía. El periodista y el expandillero se mezclan y se enredan en un viaje entre la crónica y la biografía que representa la vida de muchos emigrantes.
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