Immigration | Immigration
Dec.20.2007
While trying to make sense of this ever-churning, terror-filled world, poet Justin Chin found himself traveling repeatedly home to Southeast Asia-a region unnerved and raging with SARS and the Avian Flu-to help care for his father who had suddenly been declared terminally ill with cancer. In...
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Dec.20.2007
Delving into such pastimes as kidnapping, prostitution, drug dealing, robbery, rape and murder, Bordertown is stunning story which combines Gifford’s fictional vignettes with real-life visual accounts of the many lost and desperate characters who haunt the towns along the U.S.-Mexico border. These...
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Dec.19.2007
Funny in Farsi is a series of 27 humorous vignettes chronicling my family's immigration to America from Abadan, Iran. We came here in 1972 when there were few Iranians in the United States. The one time we ran into an Iranian was at the mall (of course!). The excitement, awe and relief was...
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Dec.17.2007
Men and women with brown faces and strong backs who risk everything to cross the Mexican border and invade the American Dream are the Okies of the 1990s. Two of them, Candido and America Rincon, have come to Southern California and are living in a makeshift camp deep in a ravine, fighting off...
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