The World Of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place

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An estimated six million undocumented Mexican migrants live in the US. This study takes the reader deep into the sending communities in Mexico, where conditions lead to Mexicans risking their lives in a bid to cross the border. Included are astonishing tales of border crossings and interviews with construction workers, restaurant staff and street vendors in New York and L.A. on their survival strategies, the ways they find work, send money home, find housing, learn English and avoid detection. Hellman offers a humanising perspective on the struggles of the migrants.

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Judith Adler Hellman is a professor of social and political science at York University, Toronto. She is the author of Mexican Lives and The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place, both published by The New Press, as well as Mexico in Crisis and Journeys Among Women: Feminism in Five Italian Cities. Hellmans fieldwork and writing on Mexico date back to the 1960s, when she first interviewed peasants in the countryside and social movement activists in the cities. She lives in Toronto, Canada.