The great escape: a true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams in America
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"In 2007, Saket Soni received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker inside a Mississippi labor camp. He and 500 other men were living in squalor in Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid portable toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Worse, lured by the promise of good work and green cards, the men had desperately scraped together up to 20,000 dollars each to apply for this "opportunity" to rebuild oil rigs after Hurricane Katrina, putting their families into impossible debt. Soni traces the workers' extraordinary escape; their march on foot to Washington, DC; and their 31-day hunger strike to bring attention to their cause"--
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Biographies
Biography
Business
Electronic books
Escapes
Escapes -- Mississippi -- History -- 21st century
Exploitation
Forced labor
Forced labor -- Mississippi -- History -- 21st century
Foreign workers
Foreign workers -- Mississippi -- History -- 21st century
History
Immigrants
Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Immigration
Labor
Labor camps
Labor camps -- Mississippi -- History -- 21st century
Political science
Public policy
Social conditions
Social reformers
Biography
Business
Electronic books
Escapes
Escapes -- Mississippi -- History -- 21st century
Exploitation
Forced labor
Forced labor -- Mississippi -- History -- 21st century
Foreign workers
Foreign workers -- Mississippi -- History -- 21st century
History
Immigrants
Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Immigration
Labor
Labor camps
Labor camps -- Mississippi -- History -- 21st century
Political science
Public policy
Social conditions
Social reformers
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Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Business
Electronic books
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Exploitation
Forced labor -- Mississippi -- History -- 21st century
Foreign workers -- Mississippi -- History -- 21st century
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Labor
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Political science
Public policy
Social reformers
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The great escape : a true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams in America
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Business
Electronic books
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Foreign workers
History
Immigrants
Immigration
Labor
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Political science
Public policy
Social conditions
Social reformers
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