Download or read book Between the Lines written by Larry Siems and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1995-04-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the continuing U.S. debate over illegal immigration, a human face has rarely been shown. The topic has been presented as a monolithic abstraction, a creation of statistics, political rhetoric, and fear. This collection of letters between undocumented immigrants in California and their families back home reveals the other side of the story. Published for the first time in paperback, Between the Lines reveals the often poignant human drama currently being played out along the U.S.-Mexico border. The letters, presented in Spanish and English, express powerful feelings of hope, uncertainty, and fear among the undocumented travelers as they arrive in the United States and seek work, social support and legal status. The letters from their families in Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador return feelings of hope, love, and support. Translator/editor Siems provides a powerful and lyrical introductory essay that sets the stage for the letters that follow.
Download or read book The Road to Nowhere written by Matt Patrick and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 2016 spring semester, the Patrick, Tannenhaus, Hernandez Sophomore team embarked upon a journey. A journey to discover what drives people to move. Focusing on U.S./Latin-American immigration during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, students were exposed to an array of perspectives and policies. Combining Spanish and Humanities, language and culture; preconceptions were challenged and minds opened. Forming groups, students selected a Latin-American country and attempted to get inside the minds of those affected by immigration. Often victims of more powerful forces, the immigrant's story is rarely told. Through works of historical fiction, students revealed why immigrants leave their homeland, what they experience on their journey, and how their life is altered once in the U.S."
Download or read book Peque as Historias de una Revoluci n Chucuta 1998 2005 written by Elio C. Aponte and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elio C. Aponte, nacido en Caracas. Cum Laude, Ingeniero Aeroespacial, Universidad de Míchigan, 1984. Presidente y Fundador de ORVEX - Organización de Venezolanos en el Exilio (abril, 2005), en Miami. Ha escuchado, transcrito y traducido al inglés testimonios de persecución de más de quinientos venezolanos en diez años. Ha promovido la protección migratoria de los venezolanos exiliados así como la lucha noviolenta en su país. Testigo experto sobre Venezuela en Tribunales de Inmigración de Estados Unidos, ayudando a detener la deportación de sus compatriotas. Creador de las páginas web www.orvex.org y www.ruedalo.org, esta última un medio de comunicación alternativo por la que el gobierno de Venezuela lo considera TERRORISTA, acusándolo de trabajar para el derrocamiento violento del gobierno de Chávez y ejecutar el magnicidio con grandes ayudas financieras del Departamento de Estado de EE.UU. y la C.I.A., cargos muy graves pero infundados porque todas sus acciones han sido, son y serán siempre noviolentas. Productor y conductor del programa dominical de TV por internet “ALO RESISTENTE”. Su trabajo ha sido reconocido por organizaciones defensoras de derechos humanos de varios países. Creador del canal ORVEX en YouTube que cuenta con más de 1400 videos que han sido vistos más de 20 millones de veces. Entrevistado por medios de comunicación masivos como UNIVISION, TELEMUNDO, CNN EN ESPAÑOL, LA VOZ DE AMERICA y NTN 24 HORAS, entre otros, dado su amplio conocimiento y análisis acerca de la realidad venezolana. Actualmente se encuentra en el exilio.
Download or read book Transmovimientos written by Ellie D. Hernández and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a trans-embodied framework, this anthology identifies transmovimientos as the creative force or social mechanism through which queer, trans, and gender nonconforming Latinx communities navigate their location and calibrate their consciousness. This anthology unveils a critical perspective with the emphasis on queer, trans, and gender nonconforming communities of immigrants and social dissidents who reflect on and write about diaspora and migratory movements while navigating geographical and embodied spaces across gendered and racialized contexts, all crucial elements of the trans-movements taking place in the United States. This collection forms a nuanced conversation between scholarship and social activism that speaks in concrete ways about diasporic and migratory LGBTQ communities who suffer from immoral immigration policies and political discourses that produce untenable living situations. The focal point of analysis throughout Transmovimientos examines migratory movements and anti-immigrant sentiment, homophobia, and stigma toward people who are transgender, immigrants, and refugees. These deliberate consciousness-based expressions are designed to realign awareness about the body in transit and the diasporic experience of relocating and emerging into new possibilities.
Download or read book Tougher Than Nails written by Amanda Flores and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The next day he came for my children. The time to go had come.... The river was very strong and very cold.... When I heard the sound of the helicopter, my heart pounded....” Choices must be made whether bad or good. I went from hot El Salvador to cold Canada, but my faith kept me cool and kept me warm and safe, just like I kept my family. The Salvadorian civil war didn’t kill me, the Rio Grande didn’t drown me, la migra didn’t catch me, Canadian winters haven’t frozen me. Yet. Many people have had trials and tribulations and chose the wrong attitude to get through them. I did the same until I truly listened to my heart and the voice of God. Using His map, I took my family from the dark into the light. I didn’t know how to swim, speak English, shovel snow, drive, or sometimes feed my family. But I am a survivor, a fierce wife and an even fiercer mother. Some people say I’m tougher than nails. My life shows that determination and faith—and strength—can lead to wonders. I hope my story can inspire people—my children, my grandchildren, everybody.
Download or read book Cara de Pr Cer written by Roberto Luis Guzm N. and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palabras, acciones, escenas se despliegan por aquí y más allá en Cara de Prócer, un libro de cuentos y relatos que línea a línea construye su lugar. Tramas que marcan momentos de la vida. Impensados, comunes, ajenos, irreversibles. Ni más ni menos que el delineado del paso de hombres y mujeres que viven dentro de cada historia. Así los relatos: El caballo de Troya, y Extraña lluvia, se dirimen en las fronteras de lo fantástico y cotidiano. Tomografía computada, exhibe desde un realismo crudo cuan frágil y hasta patético se puede ser en el decurso de un problema de salud. Es Macao grr..., una historia que nos acerca los desatinos a los que se puede arribar, simple y llanamente por seguir la ruta del azar, la seducción del juego. Nadie se dispone a perder, aunque simule lo contrario. Escenas, personajes, lugares, amores y humores... Nada escapa a la pluma de Roberto Luis Guzmán. Marta Rosa Mutti
Download or read book 100 LATINOS 100 HISTORIAS written by R.C. ONTIVEROS and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El libro que tiene ahora en sus manos posee contenidos y caraterísticas únicas: encierra historias narradas por estudiantes de secundaria como parte de un proyecto de su clase de español. Habría que buscar a 100 estudiantes latinos quienes, a pesar de los enormes problemas de los jóvenes de hoy, alcanzaron la meta de graduarse de “high school” y quedar fuera de las terribles estadísticas de deserción entre los hispanos. Este libro logra adentrarse en la página del diario vivir de un adolescente, quizá su hermano, su primo, su vecino, su hijo, y se convertirá seguramente en una gran fuente de inspiración para toda la población latina.
Download or read book A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish written by John Butt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate and advanced students a reason ably comprehensive guide to the morphology and syntax of educated speech and plain prose in Spain and Latin America at the end of the twentieth century. Spanish is the main, usually the sole official language of twenty-one countries,} and it is set fair to overtake English by the year 2000 in numbers 2 of native speakers. This vast geographical and political diversity ensures that Spanish is a good deal less unified than French, German or even English, the latter more or less internationally standardized according to either American or British norms. Until the 1960s, the criteria of internationally correct Spanish were dictated by the Real Academia Espanola, but the prestige of this institution has now sunk so low that its most solemn decrees are hardly taken seriously - witness the fate of the spelling reforms listed in the Nuevas normas de prosodia y ortograjia, which were supposed to come into force in all Spanish-speaking countries in 1959 and, nearly forty years later, are still selectively ignored by publishers and literate persons everywhere. The fact is that in Spanish 'correctness' is nowadays decided, as it is in all living languages, by the consensus of native speakers; but consensus about linguistic usage is obviously difficult to achieve between more than twenty independent, widely scattered and sometimes mutually hostile countries. Peninsular Spanish is itself in flux.
Download or read book Se fij en m written by Theiska Castillo Medina and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En Se fijó en mí... podrás encontrar el testimonio de una niña/mujer que ha pasado situaciones día a día. Pero que no fue hasta un tiempo atrás que se dio cuenta que debía fijarse en Dios, así como el se fijó en ella. La diferencia fue, que Dios ya se había fijado desde antes que naciera. En cambio ella tuvo y ha tenido que pasar por situaciones tan graves como la destrucción de su matrimonio para darse cuenta, que Dios es el único fiel. Que antes de enamorarnos de alguien, debemos enamorarnos de Dios. Cuenta con dos partes, con el propósito de alentar vidas y que se den cuenta...que la Fe y el amor es el conjunto perfecto para recibir el abrazo de Dios diariamente en nuestras vidas.
Download or read book El Gran Silencio written by Nicolas Lehoux and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Gran Silencio es individual, lo siento en mí con tal intensidad que poco importa si me creen o no. Hace tiempo que ya pasé la fase de la aprobación. Aunque sería bueno saber que soy comprendido, no tengo ninguna expectativa en ese sentido. Simplemente he tratado aquí de expresar una vez más lo inexpresable, de dar testimonio de lo que Yo Soy. Al entrar en el Gran Silencio he capitulado. He dejado de creer que la humanidad podía en su conjunto despertarse a la consciencia. No obstante, creo firmemente que algunos individuos lo pueden lograr ya que es su deseo más preciado. Es para ellos que escribo esta obra, es hacia ellos que dedico mi obra. Me gustaría recordarles que es el deber de cada uno el liberarse a sí mismos incluso antes de tratar de hacerlo para los demás.
Download or read book Gender Violence at the U S Mexico Border written by HŽctor Dom’nguez-Ruvalcaba and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S.ÐMexico border is frequently presented by contemporary media as a violent and dangerous place. But that is not a new perception. For decades the border has been constructed as a topographic metaphor for all forms of illegality, in which an ineffable link between space and violence is somehow assumed. The sociological and cultural implications of violence have recently emerged at the forefront of academic discussions about the border. And yet few studies have been devoted to one of its most disturbing manifestations: gender violence. This book analyzes this pervasive phenomenon, including the femicides in Ciudad Ju‡rez that have come to exemplify, at least for the media, its most extreme manifestation. Contributors to this volume propose that the study of gender-motivated violence requires interpretive and analytical strategies that draw on methods reaching across the divide between the social sciences and the humanities. Through such an interdisciplinary conversation, the book examines how such violence is (re)presented in oral narratives, newspaper reports, films and documentaries, novels, TV series, and legal discourse. It also examines the role that the media have played in this process, as well as the legal initiatives that might address this pressing social problem. Together these essays offer a new perspective on the implications of, and connections between, gendered forms of violence and topics such as mechanisms of social violence, the micro-social effects of economic models, the asymmetries of power in local, national, and transnational configurations, and the particular rhetoric, aesthetics, and ethics of discourses that represent violence.
Download or read book Mexican Folk Narrative from the Los Angeles Area written by Elaine K. Miller and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Los Angeles is the setting in which Elaine Miller has collected her narratives from Mexican-Americans. The Mexican folk tradition, varied and richly expressive of the inner life not only of a people but also of the individual as each lives it and personalizes it, is abundantly present in the United States. Since it is in the urban centers that most Mexican-Americans have lived, this collection represents an important contribution to the study of that tradition and to the study of the changes urban life effects on traditional folklore. The collection includes sixty-two legendary narratives and twenty traditional tales. The legendary narratives deal with the virgins and saints as well as with such familiar characters as the vanishing hitchhiker, the headless horseman, and the llorona. Familiar characters appear in the traditional tales—Juan del Oso, Blancaflor, Pedro de Ordimalas, and others. Elaine Miller concludes that the traditional tales are dying out in the city because tale telling itself is not suited to the fast pace of modern urban life, and the situations and characters in the tales are not perceived by the people to be meaningfully related to the everyday challenges and concerns of that life. The legendary tales survive longer in an urban setting because, although containing fantastic elements, they are related to the beliefs and hopes of the narrator—even in the city one may be led to buried treasure on some dark night by a mysterious woman. The penchant of the informants for the fantastic in many of their tales often reflects their hopes and fears, such as their dreams of suddenly acquiring wealth or their fears of being haunted by the dead. Miller closely observes the teller's relation to the stories—to the duendes, the ánimas, Death, God, the devil—and she notes the tension on the part of the informant in his relation to their religion. The material is documented according to several standard tale and motif indices and is placed within the context of the larger body of Hispanic folk tradition by the citation of parallel versions throughout the Hispanic world. The tales, transcribed from taped interviews, are presented in colloquial Spanish accompanied by summaries in English.
Download or read book Conversaciones con Jes s Soto written by Ariel Jiménez and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Soto's first encounters with painting, his efforts to create an independent artistic practice that could speak to us of the world, of space, and of time beyond pictorial representation, made him a witness to and an extraordinary participant in some of the most fascinating artistic adventures of the Latin American twentieth century. At the same time, they demonstrate his deep and vital connection with the long history of Western art."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Los Cabellos De La Bruja written by Jose Eduardo Hern Ndez and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La historia se da en el año 2002, con una joven llamada Ariana; su aventura atraviesa gran des riesgos a lo largo de la historia. Desde que Ariana conoce a sus grandes amigos, se entera de una supuesta epidemia que, ataca primeramente a jóvenes de dieciséis años. Conforme pasa el tiempo, están jugando a contra reloj, para salvar la vida de sus amigas y demás jóvenes; con la ayuda de sus amigos, familiares, un padre y, variación de personajes. Tendrán que encontrar una cura o, mejor dicho una solución, en contra de este mal; pero antes de poder ayudarse a si misma y, a las otras jóvenes, debe de arreglar problemas, para lograr convencer a la gente de su alrededor, que piensan que no es una maldición, si no, una enfermedad, por eso debe de ir convenciendo a sus amigos. Su amiga Alejandra padece este mal de varios meses antes, será clave importante así como Dinamarca y varias jóvenes más; antes de todo deben de informarse sobre los misterios del parque, donde comienza la supuesta maldición, esperando encontrar respuestas a su camino; cada uno de los personajes tienes su forma de ver el problema, así como en burla o en ayuda y, la personalidad de cada personaje para la historia. El morbo de la información puede matar, como la ignorancia del miedo, a no, querer ayudarse a si mismo y pensar que todo es parte de la mente...
Download or read book Voices of the Border written by Tobin Hansen and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of personal narratives of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border, Voices of the Border brings us closer to this community of people and their strength, love, and courage in the face of hardship and injustice. Chapter introductions provide readers with a broader understanding of their experiences and the consequences of public policy.
Download or read book EL ULTIMO LATIDO DE UNA MADRE written by Roldán Alfredo Quintanilla Dimas and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cerré mis ojos un instante frente al cielo despejado; soplaba el viento libre, deslizándose en mi rostro, acariciándome. Me invadió una sensación de ternura, imagine despegar desde la tierra hast alas Alturas; eschuche el sonido de las aves y el crujir de las hojas como un concierto que disfrute en silencio. Ese día suspire, proque sentí EL ULTIMO LATIDO DE MI MADRE, en efecto ella había muerto me quedé a su lado recordando su bella sonrisa; cerci junto a dos hermanos y una hermana, fue sensacional. Mi madre supero dos capturas, vivimos momentos de angustia; la repression y la impunidad reinaban en la década de los 70. Siendo unos pequeños, el dolor se apoderó de nuestra inocencia, la Guerra era inminente, años más tarde entraría a nuestro hogar. Nos quedamos como en un naufragio, solos en medio del terror, burlados y pisoteados por un sistema que institucionalizó la repression y atentaba contra las libertades fundamentals de la población. La guerra no solo destruye lo físico sino también el tejido social de una nación. Han pasado tantos años de la firma de los Acuerdos de Paz y es necesario que las nuevas generaciones conozcan los hechos lamentable de esa época. Las cicatrices de la guerra aún no han sanado, siguen ahi recuperándose lentamente." Roldán Alfredo Quintanilla Dimas
