The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America

The astonishing story of immigrants lured to the United States from India and trapped in forced labor--told...
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Author: Saket Soni
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Language: English
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The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America by Soni, Saket

The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America

€39,17

The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America

€39,17
Author: Saket Soni
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The astonishing story of immigrants lured to the United States from India and trapped in forced labor--told by the visionary labor leader who engineered their escape and set them on a path to citizenship.

In late 2006, Saket Soni, a twenty-eight-year-old Indian-born community organizer, received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker in Mississippi. He was one of five hundred men trapped in squalid Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by barbed wire, watched by guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Recruiters had promised them good jobs and green cards. The men had scraped up $20,000 each for this "opportunity" to rebuild hurricane-wrecked oil rigs, leaving their families in impossible debt. During a series of clandestine meetings, Soni and the workers devised a bold plan. In The Great Escape, Soni traces the workers' extraordinary escape, their march on foot to Washington, DC, and their twenty-three-day hunger strike to bring attention to their cause. Along the way, ICE agents try to deport the men, company officials work to discredit them, and politicians avert their eyes. But none of this shakes the workers' determination to win their dignity and keep their promises to their families.

Weaving a deeply personal journey with a riveting tale of twenty-first-century forced labor, Soni takes us into the lives of the immigrant workers the United States increasingly relies on to rebuild after climate disasters. The Great Escape is the gripping story of one of the largest human trafficking cases in modern American history--and the workers' heroic journey for justice.

Author: Saket Soni
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 01/24/2023
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.30w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781643750088


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2022 pg. 14
Publishers Weekly 10/31/2022
Library Journal 12/01/2022 pg. 117
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2022
Booklist 12/01/2022 pg. 97

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