Somewhere we are human : authentic voices on migration, survival, and new beginnings / edited by Reyna Grande, Sonia Guiñansaca ; foreword by Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Grande, Reyna, editor.; Guiñansaca, Sonia, editor.; Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- writer of foreword.
2023
JV6483 .S634 2023
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Title Somewhere we are human : authentic voices on migration, survival, and new beginnings / edited by Reyna Grande, Sonia Guiñansaca ; foreword by Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Edition First HarperCollins paperback edition.
ISBN 9780063095786 (paperback)
0063095785 (paperback)
Published New York : HarperVia, 2023.
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description xix, 311 pages ; 21 cm
Call Number JV6483 .S634 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 304.8
Summary "In the overheated debate about immigration, we often lose sight of the humanity at the heart of this complex issue. The immigrants and refugees living precariously in the United States are mothers and fathers, children, neighbors, and friends. Individuals propelled by hope and fear, they gamble their lives on the promise of America, yet their voices are rarely heard. This anthology of essays, poetry, and art seeks to shift the immigration debate--now shaped by rancorous stereotypes and xenophobia--towards one rooted in humanity and justice. Through their storytelling and art, the contributors to this thought-provoking book remind us that they are human still. Transcending their current immigration status, they offer nuanced portraits of their existence before and after migration, the factors behind their choices, the pain of leaving their homeland and beginning anew in a strange country, and their collective hunger for a future not defined by borders" -- Provided by Amazon.com.
Added Author Grande, Reyna, editor.
Guiñansaca, Sonia, editor.
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- writer of foreword.
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Course Lists OT 699 NC1 by Hape, Kristi (Fall 2024)
Foreword / by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Editor's note
[Part 1] : Migration
Before ; Reunion ; After / Sonia Guiñansaca
Art : Where to go / Bo Thai
The Promise made / Carolina Rivera Escamilla
& I came the way the birds came / Jennif(f)er Tamayo
Every election ; There's a wall ft. merengue legend Kinito Mendez's "Cachamba" ; At the Naco, Sonora Port of Entry twenty years after crossing the border, bu this time with papers / Javier Zamora
Art : A future, elsewhere / Alan Pelaez Lopez
Searching for Atlantis / lois-soto lane
Quinceñera ; You find home/then you run / Jesús I. Valles
Pa' nueva yol / Danyeli Rodriguez Del Orbe
First visit / Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz
Caravan ; Immigrant song ; Learning drills / Kaveh Bassiri
10 / Azul Uribe
After Sappho ; How we / tell stories \ ; Conception / féi hernandez
[Part 2] : Survival
When I dream of mother(land) ; From an Ethiopian child living in America / Girum Seid Mulat
Fit / Aline Mello
Any day now / t. jahan
Not of their world / Julissa Arce
Montaña a Montaña / Mariella Mendoza
You say citizenship I say a country is a catastrophe ; Auto deportee aubade / Laurel Chen
Guilty of being lucky / Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley
All the little pieces / Emila Fiallo
Art : A moment for two / Julio Salgado
Fruit ; Unite here local II ; An ode to journalists / Francisco Aviles Pino
Discretion / Angel Sutjipto
I unravel to tether myself ; You insist on my native tongue ; Nothing in particular / T. Lê
A Permanent search / Elías Roldán
Insider-outsider : unlearning my legal education / Razeen Zaman
Querida Zoraida / Alexa Vasquez
[Part 3] : New beginnings
Things you remember when an orange-hued fascist with a blond combover is voted out of office / Ola Osaze
Body of work / Omar Vazquez
Bull vision ; If I, an undocumented person, were to own a spaceship or two or three / Sól Casique
Undocumented success story / Barbara Andreas Sostaita
Not so sweet valley / Reyna Grande
Art : Come back / Rommy Torrico
Return to the invented country : a theory of return migration / César Miguel Rivera Vega Magallón
The Fence ; I take my kids to school and the president is set to be acquitted ; The way was promised has mile markers to guide us / Dujie Tahat
Through the lens of my camera / Miriam Alarcón Avila
Silicon Valley, CA / Yosimar Reyes
Counter encounters / Grace Talusan
Sweet grass / Dulce Guerra
On paper / Carolina Alvarado Molk
Acknowledgments
About Viet Thanh Nguyen
About the editors.

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