The Illegal Man

Author : Patrick Dearen
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1645407586
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illegal Man written by Patrick Dearen and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spur Award-Winning Author A story that could have come out of today’s headlines, this revised edition of the acclaimed novel explores a Mexican national’s desperate attempt to provide for his family. Ricardo has known only poverty in Mexico, but he dreams of a better life in the United States. He enlists a “coyote” to smuggle him across the Rio Grande, a river that separates not only one nation from another, but one world from another. The Illegal Man is also the story of Ann Rawlings, a recent widow struggling to preserve her West Texas ranch. There is a troubled Border Patrolman and her bigoted foreman, who considers Mexican ranch hands to be little more than animals. For Ricardo, it’s a world in which he will suffer hardship and indignity, but one he will gladly endure to support his family. The Illegal Man grew out of a newspaper series by Patrick Dearen, who interviewed Mexican and American officials and accompanied Border Patrolmen along the Rio Grande. He based his character Ricardo on an actual Mexican national he interviewed on a West Texas ranch. “A warm, gripping novel that explores a subject of intense interest to all Americans. Wonderfully told, this novel should endure.” —Norman Zollinger, two-time Spur Award winner. “A vivid description of what a common man goes through seeking work in a different country than his own. It is a powerful story filled with adventure, sadness, persecution, and loneliness.” —San Angelo (Texas) Standard-Times. “Dearen's writing is so perfect, so descriptive, so charged with emotion, it sucks the reader into the very marrow of the story. . . Stretches the mind and the heart as the good and the bad in life play out on its pages . . . It is a good story: a story of love, of justice, and of redemption.” —Permian Historical Annual. “A beautifully written story that speaks eloquently.” —Roundup Magazine.

Author : Marc Hopkins
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595165419
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illegal written by Marc Hopkins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When David and Rick, Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) agents, begin a routine investigation of a local restuarant they expected another routine day. What they found was John Davis. As the FBI closed in they raced to discover who he really was. But before they would discover the truth about John Davis they would have to examine their partnership and their beliefs.

Author : Virginia Gayl Salazar
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 149174474X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illegal written by Virginia Gayl Salazar and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jos and his wife Elmira have everything a young couple want in this world: love, a home and family, and good health to work and feed themselves. They believe God cares for them. Then Enrique the town bully decides he wants a wife and looks around for one. He looks on Elmira as the most beautiful woman in his community and goes after her. Enrique sets in motion the fear that forces Jos to leave his beloved wife and children. He runs to the United States, the land of promise.

Author : Lawrence Hill
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393285464
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illegal: A Novel written by Lawrence Hill and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A gripping political thriller readers may find hard to put down.”—Dallas Morning News Keita Ali is an elite runner living in Zantoroland, a poor, fictional island that is erupting in political violence. When his father, a journalist, is murdered, Keita escapes to the wealthy nation of Freedom State—an imagined country much like our own. A stateless refugee without documentation, Keita must hide from the authorities even as he races marathons to support himself and ransom his sister who has been kidnapped. This tension-filled novel by the best-selling author of Someone Knows My Name is an astute exploration of dislocation, starting all over again, and the desperate need for home and community.

Author : Juan Muhammed Kim Esq
Publisher : Penetrating Mind Flame
ISBN 13 : 1438264313
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Official Secret Handbook for Illegal Immigrants written by Juan Muhammed Kim Esq and published by Penetrating Mind Flame. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purported guidebook used by tens of millions of illegal immigrants to enter the United States successfully and prosper once there, a satire on Americans who have lost control of their borders and not on foreigners.

Author : Robert W. Heimburger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110717662X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God and the Illegal Alien written by Robert W. Heimburger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.

Author : Jose Angel N.
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252096185
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illegal written by Jose Angel N. and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A day after José Ángel N. first crossed the United States border from Mexico, he was caught and then released onto the streets of Tijuana. Undeterred, N. crawled back through a tunnel to San Diego, where he entered the United States to stay. Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant is his timely and compelling memoir of building a new life in America. Arriving in the 1990s with a ninth grade education, N. traveled to Chicago where he found access to ESL and GED classes. He eventually attended college and graduate school and became a professional translator. Despite having a well-paying job, N. was isolated by a lack of legal documentation. Travel concerns made promotions impossible. The simple act of purchasing his girlfriend a beer at a Cubs baseball game caused embarrassment and shame when N. couldn't produce a valid ID. A frustrating contradiction, N. lived in a luxury high-rise condo but couldn't fully live the American dream. He did, however, find solace in the one gift America gave him–-his education. Ultimately, N.'s is the story of the triumph of education over adversity. In Illegal, he debunks the stereotype that undocumented immigrants are freeloaders without access to education or opportunity for advancement. With bravery and honesty, N. details the constraints, deceptions, and humiliations that characterize alien life "amid the shadows."

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1490 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Items of Interest written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ayona Datta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317027949
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illegal City written by Ayona Datta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter settlement in Delhi. Since 2000, a series of judicial rulings in India have criminalised squatters as 'illegal' citizens, 'encroachers' and 'pickpockets' of urban land, and have led to a spate of slum demolitions across the country. This book argues that in this context, it has become vital to distinguish between illegality and informality since it is those 'illegal' slums which are at the receiving end of a 'force of law', where law is violently encountered within everyday spaces. This book uses a gendered intersectional lens to explore how a 'violence of law' shapes how 'public' subjectivities of gender, class, religion and caste are encountered and negotiated within the 'private' spaces of home, family and neighbourhood. This book suggests that resettlement is not a condition that squatters desire; rather something that is seen as the only way out of the 'illegal' city. The wait for resettlement is a temporal space of anxiety and uncertainty, where particular kinds of politics around law, space and gender takes shape, which transform squatters' relations with the state, urban development, civil society, and with each other. Through their everyday struggles around water, sanitation, social and political organisation and the transformation of their homes and families, this book shows that the desire for the 'legal city' is also the irony and utopia of home, which will remain an incomplete gendered project - both for the state and for squatters.

Author : Arjen Leerkes
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089640495
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illegal Residence and Public Safety in the Netherlands written by Arjen Leerkes and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illegal Residence and Public Safety in the Netherlands is een onderzoek naar de gevolgen van de steeds drastischere maatregelen om illegaal verblijf in Nederland tegen te gaan. EU-lidstaten als Nederland hanteren steeds zwaardere voorwaarden voor immigratie vanuit niet-westerse landen en niet-Europese landen. Arjen Leerkes onderzocht in hoeverre het verblijf en de migratie van illegale immigranten gevolgen hebben voor de publieke veiligheid en criminaliteit in Nederland. Zijn illegale immigranten eerder geneigd tot criminaliteit of weerhoudt hun juridische status hen er juist van?