La Migra Me Hizo los Mandados (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Alarcon, Alicia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558853677 ISBN 13: 9781558853676

Publisher: Arte Publico Press, 2002

Synopsis

Radio personality Alicia Alarcon invited listeners who had migrated to the United States to call and share their stories. These pages highlight the experience of immigrants from all over South and Central America who decide to leave their respective homelands. These difficult and gritty stories are the stories of the successful, the ones who make it across, past the natural and the bureaucratic obstacles along the border, only to scratch together lives on the other side.

About this title

From the Publisher:

These intriguing but heartbreaking passages reveal young and old, men and women, who must overcome the impossible as they hope to find a better place than the one they've left behind. These difficult and gritty stories are the stories of the successful, the ones who make it across, past the natural and the bureaucratic obstacles along the border, only to scratch together lives on the other side.

About the Author:

ALICIA ALARCÓN was born in Jocotepec, Jalisco, Mexico. Her parents moved their large family to Mexicali, on the border to the United States, to provide a better living for their children. She has been a journalist for La Opinión, Univisión, and CNN Radio in Los Angeles. She currently hosts a program on Radio Única 1580 AM in Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arte Publico Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1558853677
• ISBN 13: 9781558853676
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 187