false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255840609m/4738899.jpg 4738899 1 <p>Immigration has become one of the most important and contentious issues of our time. But even as policy makers in the United States and Mexico argue over what to do about the half million or more Mexicans who cross the border illegally each year to work in the United States, one fact has become indisputable. Illegal immigration has enhanced the lives of poor people more than any policy attempted by either the U.S. or the Mexican governments. Immigrants sent home $23 billion dollars in 2006 alone, rivaling what Mexico earned from selling oil. But the human cost of migration is equally high. Border crossers risk injury, attack, rape, and death, while undocumented workers often toil under dangerous and exploitative conditions in the United States.</p> <p>These harsh realities constitute the heart of <cite>Exodus/Éxodo</cite>, a powerful collaboration between writer Charles Bowden and photographer Julián Cardona that puts a human face on the issue of illegal immigration. Expanding on their award-winning 2006 <cite>Mother Jones</cite> article titled "Exodus: Border-Crossers Forge a New America," Bowden and Cardona take us to border towns, in which impoverished men and women hire "coyotes" to get them across the line; to Ciudad Juárez, where hundreds of young women maquiladora workers have been murdered and their families still seek justice; to Minutemen camps along the border, where citizen vigilantes keep watch; to New Orleans, North Carolina, and California, where migrants find back-breaking work in construction, agriculture, and other industries; to protest marches, as immigrants assert their right to stay in the United States; and to villages in Mexico, in which remitted dollars are building homes as lavish as the dreams that fuel the migrations.</p> 4803518 1 10 2008 Exodus/Éxodo (Bill and Alice Wright Photography Series) total:2|5:1|4:0|3:1|2:0|1:0| 2 8 7 0 4738899 0292718144 9780292718142 2 0 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255840609m/4738899.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4738899.Exodus_xodo 3 0 false Mon Oct 26 09:56:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 09:56:00 -0700 2009 4738899 0292718144 9780292718142 2 0 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255840609m/4738899.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4738899.Exodus_xodo 5 0 false Sun Apr 26 22:49:17 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 22:49:17 -0700 2009 4738899 0292718144 9780292718142 2 0 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255840609m/4738899.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4738899.Exodus_xodo 0 0 false Fri Mar 20 11:19:06 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 11:19:06 -0700 2009 4738899 0292718144 9780292718142 2 0 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255840609m/4738899.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4738899.Exodus_xodo 0 0 false Wed Mar 04 00:04:59 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 00:04:59 -0800 2009 4738899 0292718144 9780292718142 2 0 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255840609m/4738899.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4738899.Exodus_xodo 0 0 false Tue Oct 28 17:22:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 12 08:18:24 -0800 2009 4738899 0292718144 9780292718142 2 0 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255840609m/4738899.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4738899.Exodus_xodo 0 0 false Sat Oct 18 23:03:18 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 23:03:26 -0700 2008 4738899 0292718144 9780292718142 2 0 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255840609m/4738899.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4738899.Exodus_xodo 0 0 false Sat Sep 20 23:09:31 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 23:09:31 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4738899