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There's No Jose Here: Following the Hidden Lives of Mexican Immigrants.(Book review)
THERE'S NO JOSE HERE: FOLLOWING THE HIDDEN LIVES OF MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS
by Gabriel Thompson
Nation Books, 2006
The "hard worker"--willing to toil a lot, for cheap--is the mascot of today's immigrant rights movement. In There's No Jose Here, Gabriel Thompson lays him to rest.
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The book is a travelogue in two parts. The first set is Brooklyn, where Thompson was an organizer. Himself among the influx of Midwestern migrants to New York, he meets his Mexican characters through their struggle against ghetto housing and rent hikes.
In the second part, we visit Chinantla, Mexico's first city to send ...
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