Title The great escape : a true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams in America / Saket Soni.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023.
	©2023

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Edition	First edition.
Description	352 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Dreams -- Man camp -- Escape -- Truth march -- Hunted -- Faith -- Epilogue: forgetting.
Summary	"In 2007, Saket Soni received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker inside a Mississippi labor camp. He and 500 other men were living in squalor in Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid portable toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Worse, lured by the promise of good work and green cards, the men had desperately scraped together up to 20,000 dollars each to apply for this "opportunity" to rebuild oil rigs after Hurricane Katrina, putting their families into impossible debt. Soni traces the workers' extraordinary escape; their march on foot to Washington, DC; and their 31-day hunger strike to bring attention to their cause"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Forced labor -- Mississippi -- History -- 21st century.
	Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
	Foreign workers -- Mississippi -- History -- 21st century.
	Labor camps -- Mississippi -- History -- 21st century.
	Escapes -- Mississippi -- History -- 21st century.
	Exploitation.
	Escapes. (OCoLC)fst00915129
	Exploitation. (OCoLC)fst00918547
	Forced labor. (OCoLC)fst00931594
	Foreign workers. (OCoLC)fst01729099
	Immigrants -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00967782
	Labor camps. (OCoLC)fst00989882
	Mississippi. (OCoLC)fst01207034
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	2000-2099
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9781643750088 hardcover
	1643750089 hardcover
	9781643753683 electronic book

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