Name: The Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen Refugees who Dream of Crossing the Border
SKU: 54372667
Price: 19.38 EUR
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Author: Juan Pablo Villalobos
ISBN: 9781250802651

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The Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen Refugees who Dream of Crossing the Border

Type

Physical Book

Author

Juan Pablo Villalobos

Publisher

Square Fish

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8x13.7x1.1 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9781250802651

Synopsis "The Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen Refugees who Dream of Crossing the Border "

Award-winning Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos explores illegal immigration with this emotionally raw and timely nonfiction book about ten Central American teens and their journeys to the United States. You can't really tell what time it is when you're in the freezer. Every year, thousands of migrant children and teens cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The journey is treacherous and sometimes deadly, but worth the risk for migrants who are escaping gang violence and poverty in their home countries. And for those refugees who do succeed? They face an immigration process that is as winding and multi-tiered as the journey that brought them here. In this book, award-winning Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos strings together the diverse experiences of eleven real migrant teenagers, offering readers a beginning road map to issues facing the region. These timely accounts of courage, sacrifice, and survival--including two fourteen-year-old girls forming a tenuous friendship as they wait in a frigid holding cell, a boy in Chicago beginning to craft his future while piecing together his past in El Salvador, and cousins learning to lift each other up through angry waters--offer a rare and invaluable window into the U.S.-Central American refugee crisis. In turns optimistic and heartbreaking, The Other Side balances the boundless hope at the center of immigration with the weight of its risks and repercussions. Here is a necessary read for young people on both sides of the issue.

Juan Pablo Villalobos

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Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, in 1973, and grew up in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco. He holds a degree in Administration and Marketing and also in Spanish Language and Literature from the Universidad Veracruzana. His bachelor's thesis was dedicated to literary genres and representation in the memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier.

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