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Across the Wire Life & Hard Times on the Mexican Border

by Luis Alberto Urrea
Across the Wire Life & Hard Times on the Mexican Border

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ISBN13: 9780385425308
ISBN10: 0385425309
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A compelling and unprecedented look at life on the other side of the border.  Despite the numbers of people crossing over to the U.S., hundreds more remain behind in abject poverty.  Urrea worked closely with them and provides a compassionate and candid account of their lives.

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Luis Alberto Urrea's Across the Wire offers a compelling and unprecedented look atwhat life is like forthose refugees living on theMexicanside of the border a world that is only some twenty miles from San Diego, but that few have seen.Urrea gives us a compassionate and candid account of his work as a member and "official translator" of a crew of relief workers that provided aid to the many refugees hidden just behind the flashy tourist spots of Tijuana. His account of the struggle of these people to survive amid abject poverty, unsanitary living conditions, and the legal and political chaos that reign in the Mexican borderlands explains without a doubt the reason so many are forced to make the dangerous and illegal journey "across the wire" into the United States.
More than just an expose, Across the Wire is a tribute to the tenacity of a people who have learned to survive against the most impossible odds, and returns to these forgotten people their pride and their identity.

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About the Author

Luis Alberto Urrea was born in Tijuana to an American mother and a Mexican father.  He graduated from the University of California, San Diego, in 1977.  After working as a film extra, he joined a crew of relief workers helping the poor on the Mexican side of the border.  In 1982, he went to Massachusetts, where he taught Expository Writing at Harvard.  Currently, he lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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This book is a must read for every one who demands we get tough on illegal immigrants.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780385425308
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
01/02/1993
Publisher:
BANTAM DOUBLEDAY DELL
Pages:
224
Height:
.56IN
Width:
5.20IN
Thickness:
.75
Number of Units:
1
Illustration:
Yes
Copyright Year:
1993
Series Volume:
no. 8
UPC Code:
2800385425300
Photographer:
John Lueders-Booth
Author:
Luis Urrea
Photographer:
John Lueders-Booth
Author:
Luis Alberto Urrea
Author:
John (PHT) Lueders-Booth
Author:
Luis Alberto Urrea
Photographer:
John Lueders-Booth
Photographer:
John Lueders-Booth
Subject:
mexico;immigration;poverty
Subject:
Social conditions
Subject:
Mexican-american border region
Subject:
Baja california (mexico)
Subject:
Frontera mexicano americana
Subject:
Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Social conditions.
Subject:
World History-Mexico
Subject:
Mexican-American Border Region Economic conditions.
Subject:
Emigration and immigration
Subject:
Socioeconomic factors.
Subject:
Tijuana

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