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Author Martínez, Rubén.

Title Crossing over : a Mexican family on the migrant trail / Ruben Martinez.

Imprint New York : Metropolitan Books, 2001.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.85 M36    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed.
Description 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary Follows the Chavez family from the small Mexican town of Cheran to the fields of Missouri and California and the slaughterhouses of Wisconsin offering a portrait of immigrant life in the U.S.
Contents Prologue: The Passion -- Points of Departure -- Home -- Paisanos -- Family -- Waiting -- Highland Hip Hop -- Fiesta -- Harvest -- Rosa's Journey -- Another Country -- The Line -- Warren, Arkansas -- Princes of Norwalk -- St. Louis, Missouri -- Strawberry Fields Forever.
Awards Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, 2002.
Subject Chavez family.
Migrant labor -- United States.
Mexico -- Cherán. (OCoLC)fst01269107
Immigrants -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00967782
Noncitizens -- United States -- Social conditions.
Chavez family. (OCoLC)fst00265705
Immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
Immigrants. (OCoLC)fst00967712
Noncitizens -- United States -- Biography.
Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
Migrant labor. (OCoLC)fst01020711
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Subject Undocumented immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
Local Subject Undocumented immigration -- United States.
Subject Mexican American families -- Social conditions.
Cherán (Mexico) -- Biography.
Illegal immigration -- United States.
Mexican Americans. (OCoLC)fst01019072
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Undocumented immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
Mexican Americans -- Biography.
Other Form: Online version: Martínez, Rubén. Crossing over. 1st ed. New York : Metropolitan Books, 2001 (OCoLC)765496246
ISBN 0805049088
9780805049084
9780312421236
0312421230
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