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English
Description
"His first-ever collection of stories, Jaime Cortez's Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California, in the 1970s. A young boy named Gordo fights back tears underneath a wrestler's mask as he is forced to fight other boys and grow into his father's expectations of manhood. As he comes of age, Gordo learns about sex, poverty, and discovers the wrenching divides between documented and undocumented immigrants. Fat Cookie, high schooler...
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English
Description
When the dead body of a young woman is found on the grounds of Belle Vie, the estate's manager, Caren Gray, launches her own investigation into Belle Vie's history, which leads her to a centuries old mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters--andher own past.
6) Nomadland
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
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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. The third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, it features real nomads Linda May, Swankie, and Bob Wells as Fern's mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the American West.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
An anarchically outrageous comedy from Lina Wertmüller, All screwed up is ripe for rediscovery, an accomplishment as impressive as the classics she made before and after: Love and anarchy (1973) and Swept away (1974). It tells the story of Gigi (Luigi Diberti) and Carletto (Nino Bignamini), two Southern country boys who travel north to get work in Milan. Arriving with nothing but the clothes on their backs, they join the labor movement and live in...
Publisher
EPF Media
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
Arabic
Description
Reveals the dire reality of foreign domestic workers in Middle Eastern countries such as Lebanon. The documentary offers an intimate insight into the private lives of employers, agents, and maids. Laws create a legal structure of inequality and power imbalance that encourages corruption and abuse. Sexism and the patriarchal system discriminate against Lebanese women, in turn, perpetuating abuse against foreign domestic workers. Exposing a modern form...
9) Migrant
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Anna, the daughter of migrant farm workers, feels like different animals as she follows her family as they travel looking for work.
Author
Series
A la orilla del viento volume 187
Publisher
Fondo de Cultura Econm̤ica
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1. ed.
Language
Español
Description
"Miguel es un adolescente que no tiene oportunidades de crecimiento en Cuicatlǹ, su pueblo natal, as ̕que decide cruzar la frontera norte de Mx̌ico en bs︢queda de mejores condiciones de vida"--Publisher.
Miguel, a teenager from Cuicatlǹ, travels to northern Mexico in search of a better life, with his flute. On his way, he faces an uncertain future and an extraordinary adventure.
11) The migrants
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A story of a simple family who worked the fields, loved each other, and wanted to see their hard work produce a better life.
12) Happy: a novel
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In a rural village of Punjab, India, a moony young man crouches over his phone in a rapeseed field near his family’s cabbage farm. His name is Happy Singh Soni, and he’s watching YouTube clips of his favorite film, Bande à Part by Jean-Luc Godard. In fact, Happy is often compared to a young Sami Frey by the imaginary journalists that keep him company while he uses the outhouse. Pooing, as he says, “en plein air.” When he’s not sleeping...
13) Trashlands
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Language
English
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Description
A few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency. In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has become, Coral is a "plucker," pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. She's stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge, where the local women dance for an endless...
14) Mary Coin
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of a road in central California is spontaneously photographed by a woman documenting the migrant laborers who have taken to America's farms in search of work. Little personal information is exchanged, and neither woman has any way of knowing that they have produced what will become the most iconic image of the Great Depression. - from cover p.[2]
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"When the skies dried up, Gloria thought it was temporary. When the dust storms rolled in, she thought they would pass. But now the bank man’s come to take the family farm, and Pa’s decided to up and move to California in search of work. They’ll pick fruit, he says, until they can save up enough money to buy land of their own again. There are only three rules at the Santa Ana Holdsten Peach Orchard: No stealing product. No drunkenness or gambling....
Author
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An Israeli professor travels to a fictitious West African nation to trace a slave-trading ancestor, only to be imprisoned under a new law barring successive generations from profiting off the proceeds of slavery. But before departing from Tel Aviv, the protagonist falls in love with Lucile, a mysterious African migrant worker who cleans his house. Entertaining and thought-provoking, this satire of contemporary attitudes toward racism and the legacy...
Author
Publisher
Viking Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Español
Description
Lu̕ca loves to watch the monarchs' migration from her home in Mexico with Pàp. But this year, the monarchs' journey north holds extra weight; Pàp is heading north, too, to look for work. He promises her that when "the weather turns cold and the monarcas return, our winged ancestors will guide me home." So while he spends the summer months harvesting produce on faraway farms, Lu̕ca watches the skies for signs of the monarchs'--and her pàp's--return....
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly, a client publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1929 and Bobot is just another migrant worker in rural California. Or rather, a migrant worker with a law degree from the Philippines reduced to manual labor in America. Bobot, like so many other young Filipinos, finds himself bunking in the fields, picking fruit by day. When his cousin writes claiming to have spotted his estranged wife in nearby San Francisco, he swipes a co-worker's favorite nightclub suit and heads to the big city...
19) Escape clause
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
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...
20) Papi Chulo
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
After a newly single TV weatherman is put on leave following an on-air meltdown, he directs his energy into home improvement and hires a middle-aged Latino day laborer named Ernesto to help. Despite a language barrier and having nothing in common, the two men develop an unexpected but profound friendship in this darkly comedic reflection on class, ethnicity, and companionship.
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