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"In these pages we follow a South Asian couple from the computer industry of Bangalore, India, to a small software start-up in Silicon Valley; a Mexican family who travels to work in the meatpacking plants of Garden City, Kansas, before relocating again to a trailer park in the California badlands; two families of Nigerian refugees, including the sister of slain Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who moves from running a cooking school in Africa to holding down three simultaneous jobs chopping vegetables in Chicago restaurants; two L. A. Dodgers prospects who journey from the team's overseas training facility at Campo Las Palmas in the Dominican Republic to a minor league team in Great Falls, Montana; and a Palestinian American who travels to the Middle East and brings a new wife back to Chicago." "Alongside these elegiac stories are vignettes of artists who themselves work in the interstices of exile and relocation: forays, from instance, into the poetry of Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish, the films of the Indian American director Mira Nair, and the contemporary corridos of Mexican border musicians Los Tigres del Norte. Throughout, Martinez combines his own immigrant family's moving story with keen analyses of American policies and attitude toward newcomers, past and present. His text is accompanied by powerful images from renowned photojournalist Joseph Rodriguez."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
