The great escape : a true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams in America
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Soni, Saket, 1977-
Published
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023.
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Published
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023.
Format
Book
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352 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references: pages 329-348.
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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"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Soni, S. (2023). The great escape: a true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams in America (First edition.). Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Soni, Saket, 1977-. 2023. The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Soni, Saket, 1977-. The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Soni, S. (2023). The great escape: a true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams in america. First edn. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Soni, Saket. The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America First edition., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023.

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