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"His first-ever collection of stories, Jaime Cortez's Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California, in the 1970s. A young boy named Gordo fights back tears underneath a wrestler's mask as he is forced to fight other boys and grow into his father's expectations of manhood. As he comes of age, Gordo learns about sex, poverty, and discovers the wrenching divides between documented and undocumented immigrants. Fat Cookie, high schooler...
3) Jellyfish
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
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1 videodisc (78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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While Batya, a struggling waitress, cares for a mysterious child that appeared to her out of the sea, newlywed Keren nurses a broken leg and a ruined honeymoon. Filipino migrant worker Joy tries to support her son back home. A reflection on making connections and confronting destiny in a deconstructed urban landscape.
6) Nomadland
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. The third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, it features real nomads Linda May, Swankie, and Bob Wells as Fern's mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the American West.
7) The shiralee
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2008
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2 videodiscs (ca. 190 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A fiercely independent man reluctantly takes his daughter on the road with him to the Australian outback while he looks for work.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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Emma, the daughter of poor migrant workers, longs to own a real book, and when she turns eight and must attend school for the first time, she is amazed to discover a whole library in her classroom.
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Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
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374 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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When the dead body of a young woman is found on the grounds of Belle Vie, the estate's manager, Caren Gray, launches her own investigation into Belle Vie's history, which leads her to a centuries old mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters--andher own past.
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Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2008
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420 p. : map ; 25 cm.
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Explores the world of the millions of female Chinese migrant workers who have left their homes in rural towns to find jobs in China's cities, as revealed through a two-year study of the lives of two young women.
13) Return to sender
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After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + guide (6 pages, fold-out)
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Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as an astonishing 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the largest human migration on the planet, an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Working over several years in classic verite, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan travels with one couple who have embarked on...
15) Toni
Series
Criterion collection volume 1040
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Set in 1920s Provence, follows the tempestuous affairs Italian migrant Toni has with two women and their tragic consequences.
16) Liar's dice
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After her husband takes a distant construction job and she does not hear from him for five months, Kamala and her daughter set out on the treacherous journey to find him with the help of an army deserter.
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When the railroad stretched its steel rails across the American West in the 1870s, it opened up a vast expanse of territory with very few people but enormous agricultural potential: a second Western frontier, the garden West. Agriculture quickly followed the railroads, making way for Kansas wheat and Colorado sugar beets and Washington apples. With this new agriculture came an unavoidable need for harvest workers-for hands to pick the apples, cotton,...
18) Migrant
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
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[22] folded pages : chiefly illustrations ; 174 x 33 cm. folded to 17 x 33 cm.
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Un joven mexicano dice c?mo ?l, su madre y su hermana viajan a trav?s de la frontera en busca de su padre y para el trabajo en Los Angeles.
A young Mexican boy tells how he, his mother, and his sister travel across the border to search for his father and for work in Los Angeles.
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El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Pub. Date
[2016]
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449 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 23 cm
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This book is an intensive look at farm workers, documenting work life, living conditions, culture and migration through over 300 photographs and many narratives of workers themselves, in both English and Spanish. The conditions of farm workers have deteriorated greatly since the 1970s and 80s. At the same time, over half of the farm workers of today come from towns in Mexico where people speak indigenous languages like Mixteco and Triqui. In the Fields...
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