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The Rent collectors : exploitation, murder, and redemption in immigrant LA / Jesse Katz. - First edition. - New York : Astra House, 2024. - [8], 310, [1] strona : ilustracje ; 24 cm.

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Katz Jesse. Autor

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Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Literatura amerykańska

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Praca nierejestrowana Nielegalni imigranci Czarny rynek Przestępczość zorganizowana Zabójstwo Zemsta Los Angeles (Stany Zjednoczone, stan Kalifornia)

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Reportaż

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Socjologia i społeczeństwo Polityka, politologia, administracja publiczna Prawo i wymiar sprawiedliwości

Książka w języku angielskim. Baby-faced teen Giovanni Macedo is desperate to find belonging in one of LA’s most predatory gangs, the Columbia Lil Cycos—so desperate that he agrees to kill an undocumented Mexican street vendor. The vendor, Francisco Clemente, had been refusing to give in to the gang’s shakedown demands. But Giovanni botches the hit, accidentally killing a newborn instead. The overlords who rule the Lil Cycos from a Supermax prison 1,000 miles away must be placated and Giovanni is lured across the border where, in turn, the gang botches his killing. And so, incredibly, Giovanni rises from the dead, determined to both seek redemption for his unforgivable crime and take down the gang who drove him to do it. With The Rent Collectors, Jesse Katz has built a teeth clenching and breathless narrative that explicates the difficult and proud lives of undocumented black market workers who are being extorted by the gangs and fined by the city of LA - in other words, exploited by two sets of rent collectors.

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Poliglotka (Nowolipki 21)

All copies are currently on loan: sygn. 343 (1 egz.)

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Olivia Alejandra. Autor

Form of Work

Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Literatura amerykańska Literatura meksykańska

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Granice Emigranci Azyl Polityka migracyjna Obywatelstwo Meksyk Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

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Publicystyka

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Polityka, politologia, administracja publiczna Socjologia i społeczeństwo

Książka w języku angielskim. 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. In Rivermouth, Oliva focuses on the physical spaces that make up different phases of immigration, looking at how language and opportunity move through each of them: from the river as the waterway that separates the U.S. and Mexico, to the table as the place over which Oliva prepares asylum seekers for their Credible Fear Interviews, and finally, to the wall as the behemoth imposition that runs along America’s southernmost border.

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Poliglotka (Nowolipki 21)

There are copies available to loan: sygn. 314.15 (1 egz.)