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Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives
By (Author) Voice of Witness
Edited by Peter Orner
Foreword by Luis Alberto Urrea
Verso Books
Verso Books
25th July 2017
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Refugees and political asylum
Political oppression and persecution
323.631092273
Hardback
408
Width 140mm, Height 210mm, Spine 29mm
608g
They arrive from around the world for countless reasons. Many come simply to make a living. Others are fleeing persecution in their native countries. Millions of immigrants risk deportation and imprisonment by living in the U.S. without legal status. They are living underground, with little protection from exploitation at the hands of human smugglers, employers, or law enforcement. Underground America, from the Voice of Witness series, presents the remarkable oral histories of women and men struggling to carve a life for themselves in the U.S.
In a time when history is told in cheap television reenactments, if at all, and personal tragedy is gobbled up in rapidly digestible magazine photos and reality shows, this project goes against the grain. Guardian
PETER ORNER edited Underground America and co-edited Hope Deferred, and is the author of four books of fiction. His most recent book, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, was a New York Times Editors Choice and named a Favorite Book of 2013 by the Wall Street Journal.