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From diary of an undocumented immigrant / Ramón "Tianguis" Pérez -- Our papers / Julia Alvarez -- From A map of where I live / S. Shankar -- From Angela's ashes / Frank McCourt -- From To see and see again: a life in Iran and America / Tara Bahrampour -- Geraldo no last name / Sandra Cisneros -- From The ganster of love / Jessica Hagedorn -- From dreambirds: the strange history of the ostrich in fashion, food, and fortune / Rob Nixon -- Bi-lingual / Andrei Codrescu -- Crossing "a piece of earth" / Teresa Palomo Acosta -- From Between the lines / Salvador Mendoza -- From Between the lines / Sylvia Martinez -- From Lucy / Jamaica Kincaid -- Hae Soon's song / Gary Pak -- Exile / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- From Native speaker / Chang-rae Lee -- The caribbo cafe / Helena María Viramontes -- My new world journey / Nola Kambanda -- Snow on the desert / Agha Shahid Ali -- From We came all the way from Cuba so you could dress like this? / Achy Obejas -- AmeRícan / Tato Laviera -- Made in the tropics / Vijay Seshadri -- Absorption of rock / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The cleaving / Li-Young Lee -- Mexico's children / Richard Rodriguez -- Thanksgiving / Martín Espada -- Pidgin contest along I-5 / Frank Chin -- Immigrants / Aurora Levins Morales -- Exile / Benjamin Alire Sáenz -- The legal mapping of U.S. immigration, 1965-1996 / Leti Volpp -- "A nation of immigrants": select opinion on immigration since 1965 -- Between necessity and freedom: a roundtable discussion on recent immigration issues / Anannya Bhattacharjee -- The new immigration and the literature of Asian America / Seung Hye Suh and Robert Ji-Song Ku -- Amor de lejos: Latino (im)migration literatures/ B.V. Olguín |
