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Underground America

Narratives of Undocumented Lives

Underground America( )
Editor: Orner, Peter
Foreword by: Urrea, Luis
Series title:Voice of Witness Ser.
ISBN:978-1-78663-227-2
Publication Date:Jul 2017
Publisher:Verso Books
Imprint:Verso
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.95
Book Description:

These remarkable oral histories of undocumented men and women struggling to carve a life for themselves in the U.S. "[fill] a gap in our understanding of [immigration] by humanizing the people at the center of an otherwise cold debate" (Huffington Post) They arrive from around the world for countless reasons. Many come simply to make a living. Others are fleeing persecution in their native countries. Millions of immigrants risk deportation and imprisonment by...
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Book Details
Pages:416
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Emigration & Immigration
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.46 x 8.26 x 1.15 Inches
Book Weight:1.13 Pounds
Author Biography
(Editor)
He was born in chicago in 1968. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he taught in a rural Catholic mission in Africa, received a law degree in Boston & practiced there as a juvenile public defender & then enrolled in the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop. He lectured in law & English in Prague until joining the English department at Miami University in Ohio, where he now lives.

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