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Because I Don't Have Wings: Stories of Mexican Immigrant Life
Philip Garrison
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Description for Because I Don't Have Wings: Stories of Mexican Immigrant Life
Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 298.
For Mexican workers, the agricultural valleys of the inland Northwest are a long way from home. But there they have established communities, settlements recent enough that it feels like these newly arrived immigrant mexicanos are pioneers, still getting used to the Anglos and to each other. This book looks at the inner lives of Mexican immigrants in a northwestern U.S. boomtown, a loose collection of families from Michoacan and surrounding states living a mere 150 miles from Canada. They are more isolated than most mexicano communities closer to home, and they endure severe winters that make life more difficult still. ... Read more
For Mexican workers, the agricultural valleys of the inland Northwest are a long way from home. But there they have established communities, settlements recent enough that it feels like these newly arrived immigrant mexicanos are pioneers, still getting used to the Anglos and to each other. This book looks at the inner lives of Mexican immigrants in a northwestern U.S. boomtown, a loose collection of families from Michoacan and surrounding states living a mere 150 miles from Canada. They are more isolated than most mexicano communities closer to home, and they endure severe winters that make life more difficult still. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816525256
SKU
V9780816525256
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