Bibliograph

The great escape, a true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams in America, Saket Soni

Type

Label

The great escape, a true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams in America, Saket Soni

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The great escape

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1350426995

Responsibility statement

Saket Soni

Sub title

a true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams in America

Summary

"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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Dreams -- Man camp -- Escape -- Truth march -- Hunted -- Faith -- Epilogue: forgetting

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