ISBN:
978-1-78168-297-5 (paperback)
,
1-78168-297-6 (paperback)
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 275 Seiten, 4 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln
,
Illustrationen (farbig), Karten
Edition:
paperback edition
Uniform Title:
Los _migrantes que no importan
Keywords:
Mittelamerika Mexiko
;
USA
;
Migration
;
Migration, illegale
;
Gewalt
;
Sozialer Aspekt
;
Rausch- und Genußmittel
;
Beziehungen, internationale
;
Anthropologie, soziale
Abstract:
One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he garnered from two years spent traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America and across the US border. More than a quarter of a million Central Americans make this increasingly dangerous journey each year, and each year as many as 20,000 of them are kidnapped.Martínez writes in powerful, unforgettable prose about clinging to the tops of freight trains; finding respite, work and hardship in shelters and brothels; and riding shotgun with the border patrol. Illustrated with stunning full-color photographs, The Beast is the first book to shed light on the harsh new reality of the migrant trail in the age of the narcotraficantes. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword by Francisco Goldman -- 1. On the Road: Oaxaca -- 2. Here They Rape, There They Kill: Chiapas -- 3. La Bestia: Oaxaca and Veracruz -- 4. The Invisible Slaves: Chiapas -- 5. Kidnappings Don't Matter: Veracruz, Tabasco, Oaxaca -- 6. We Are Los Zetas: Tabasco -- 7. Living among Coyotes: To the Rio Grande and Back -- 8. You Are Not Welcome in Tijuana: Baja California -- 9. The Funnel Effect: Baja California and Sonora -- 10. The Narco Demand: Arizona -- 11. Cat and Mouse with the Border Patrol: Arizona -- 12. Ghost Town: Chihuahua -- 13. Juárez, Forbidden City: Chihuahua -- 14. Dying in the Rio Grande: Tamaulipas -- Afterword
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