Rivermouth : a chronicle of language, faith, and migration
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Published
New York : Astra House, [2023].
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 24 cm.
Status
Biography - Adult Books
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
Political refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Spanish Americans (Latin America) -- United States.
Translating and interpreting.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects.
Political refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Spanish Americans (Latin America) -- United States.
Translating and interpreting.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects.
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Published
New York : Astra House, [2023].
Format
Book
Street Date
2306
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-295).
Description
In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a powerful chronical of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border. Having worked with asylum seekers since 2016, she knows all too well the gravity of taking someone's trauma and delivering it to the warped demands of the U.S. immigration system. As Oliva's stunning prose recounts the stories of the people she's met through her work, she also traces her family's long and fluid relationship to the border each generation born on opposite sides of the Rio Grande.
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