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Communities without Borders - Images and Voices from the World of Migration (Paperback)
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Communities without Borders - Images and Voices from the World of Migration (Paperback)
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When we finally arrived at my brother's house in the United States,
I thought about how far I was from home in Mexico. I looked back,
saw the sun setting, and thought about my father and what he might
be doing. I thought, 'Why did I come so far, and how am I going to
return?' Before I left my father asked me why I wanted to leave. He
said he thought we would never see each other again. My brother
told him not to worry and that he would return me in a year. . . .
He was right, because we never did. Irma Luna recalls her
experience of migration, from Communities without BordersIn his
stunning work of photojournalism and oral history, David Bacon
documents the new reality of migrant experience: the creation of
transnational communities. Today's indigenous migrants don't simply
move from one point to another but create new communities all along
the northern road from Guatemala through Mexico into the United
States, connected by common culture and history. Drawing on his
experience as a photographer and a journalist and also as a former
labor organizer, Bacon portrays the lives of the people who migrate
between Guatemala and Mexico and the United States. He takes us
inside these communities and illuminates the ties that bind them
together, the influence of their working conditions on their
families and health, and their struggle for better lives. Bacon
portrays in photographs and their own words Mixtec and Triqui
migrants in Oaxaca, Baja California, and California; Guatemalan
migrants in Huehuetenango and Nebraska; miners and indigenous
communities in Sonora and Arizona; and veterans of the bracero
program of the 1940s and 1950s. Bacon's interviews with this first
wave of guest workers are especially relevant in light of the
current political focus on guest-worker programs as a model for
reforming immigration, an approach with which Bacon strongly
disagrees.Throughout Communities without Borders, Bacon emphasizes
the social movements migrants organize to improve their own working
conditions and the well-being of their enclaves. U.S. border policy
treats undocumented immigrants as an aggregation of individuals,
ignoring the social pressures that force whole communities to move
and the networks of families and hometowns that sustain them on
their journeys. Communities without Borders makes an urgent appeal
for understanding the human reality that should inform our national
debate over immigration."
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