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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST âą One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation.
âKarlaâs book sheds light on peopleâs personal experiences and allows their stories to be told andâŠ
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Cornejo Villavicencio renders the lives of the undocumented across America with razor-sharp clarity, intertwining her own story throughout.
She shows us how the undocumented struggle to find work, healthcare, and safety while also maintaining their families, integrity, and sanity. She becomes a medium for immigrant stories that might otherwise remain illegible except as fodder for ideological battles.
Cornejo Villavicencio was one of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard and was a PhD candidate at Yale at the time of her bookâs publication; this marks her as an exceptional kind of speaker, and the bookâs marketing and reviews rarelyâŠ
From Glenda's list on migration, migrant lives, and how they shape our common world.
Politicians may wish that migrants who donât have the governmentâs permission to be in the United States wouldnât live here. But live here they do.
Villavicencio has made a life here, most of it without the governmentâs permission, and she has the emotional scars to prove it.
Fast-moving, this is a memoir that wraps an umbilical cord around immigration policy revealing it to be the source of life for the many obstacles that unauthorized migrants liveâand potentially a source of death for the migrants themselves.
From CĂ©sar's list on turning immigration policies into human stories.
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