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001355779 035__ $$a(OCoLC)747796750
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001355779 1001_ $$aHill, Cynthia.
001355779 24514 $$aThe guestworker$$h[electronic resource] /$$cby Cynthia Hill and Charles Thompson.
001355779 260__ $$aNew York, NY :$$bFilmakers Library,$$c2006.
001355779 300__ $$a1 online resource (53 min.).
001355779 500__ $$aOriginally released as DVD.
001355779 500__ $$aTitle from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
001355779 520__ $$aWhen President Bush and some members of Congress proposed guest worker programs as part of new immigration reform legislation, it was as though nothing like this had existed before. Yet since 1986, thousands of Mexican men have legally entered the United States to work here, because of the little known H-2A guestworker program, put in effect during the Reagan years. Filmed on both sides of the border, the documentary chronicles the life of such farm- workers while looking at the issues surrounding the program. The film focuses on a 66-year-old Mexican farmer, Candelario Moreno Gonzales, who works on the tobacco, cucumber and pepper fields of the Western Farms in North Carolina . He has made this annual trip for forty years, initially as an undocumented immigrant for which he was jailed three times. Now too old to risk illegal crossings, he has paid as much as a thousand dollars for his bus fare and other costs of participating in the program. Although he is twenty years older than most of his fellow workers, he puts in the same grueling hours with no hope of citizenship and the benefits that go along with it. The film also shows the troubles of his employer, Len Wester, who may loose his farm because of drought. Wester, like many US farmers, is dependent on foreign farm laborers to sustain his farm. Candelario loves his home and family but the deteriorating condition of Mexico s rural economy leave him little choice but to continue his yearly trek. As he says " I need to go as long as I can work. I m old. The work has worn me down and made me tired. My family needs me at home in Mexico, but I need to be here too".
001355779 521__ $$aFor High School; College; Adult audiences.
001355779 546__ $$aThis edition in English.
001355779 650_0 $$aAgricultural laborers, Foreign$$zNorth Carolina.
001355779 650_0 $$aForeign workers, Mexican$$zNorth Carolina.
001355779 655_7 $$aDocumentary films.$$2lcgft
001355779 7001_ $$aThompson, Charles.
001355779 7761_ $$cOriginal$$w(OCoLC)747796750
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001355779 945__ $$aThe Whole World
001355779 980__ $$aSTREAMING
001355779 980__ $$aBIB
001355779 982__ $$aStreaming Video
001355779 983__ $$aOnline