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1) Going home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Although a Mexican family comes to the United States to work as farm laborers so that their children will have opportunities, the parents still consider Mexico their home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells a story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers, who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife. Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. With illustrations from the movie starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.
Author
Publisher
Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
In this original and ground -breaking work, Tomas Rovera documents through fiction the lives and peregrinations of the Mexian-American migrant workers of the 40's and 50's. Through a child's vision and a myriad of migrant voices, a compelling American drama unfolds. Rooted tin a haunting reality, this American novel will stand as monument to a proud people's indefatigable search for a better tomorrow.
Series
Publisher
Pluto Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Offers a wide range of new grassroots perspectives on global migrant labour organising today. From diverse workers' organisations in South Africa to migrant worker resistance in the Gulf, from forest workers in the Czech Republic to domestic workers' unions in Hong Kong, this book brings together a wealth of lived experiences and hidden struggles for the first time. Just Work? proves that migrant workers are finding innovative ways of resisting exploitation...
Author
Publisher
Front Edge Publishing , LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
What happens when eighteen Sales Leadership Minor students from Michigan State University study abroad in Rome, Italy, and work with political refugees from Middle Eastern and African countries? Join us as we journey from an insulated, protected Midwest college town to one of the most intriguing cities in the world, encountering global social, economic, and political problems along the way in order to discover a new place of understanding, compassion,...
9) Blue willow
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1976.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
A little girl, who wants most of all to have a real home and to go to a regular school, hopes that the valley her family has come to, which so resembles the pattern on her treasured blue willow plate, will be their permanent home.
Author
Series
Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society volume Volume 141
Publisher
Ibidem-Verlag
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
11) Escape clause
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota Zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those parts for home remedies, and people will do extreme things to get what they need. Some of them are...
13) Bilateral agreements and memoranda of understanding on migration of low skilled workers: a review
Author
Publisher
International Labour Organization
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
14) Amelia's road
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Tired of moving around so much, Amelia, the daughter of migrant farm workers, dreams of a stable home.
17) Foster Mary
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
Mary's dreams for her foster children include a warm house, regular meals and no more traveling.
20) Nomadland
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. Along the way, she meets other nomads who become mentors in the vast landscape of the American West.