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- Becoming Dr. Q : my journey from migrant farm worker to brain surgeon / by Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo.(CARDINAL)426544; Rivas, Mim Eichler.(CARDINAL)704470;
Starry Nights -- Faraway -- The Kaliman Maneuver -- Lessons from the fields -- Where the road doesn't lead -- Green eyes -- From harvest to Harvard -- In the land of giants -- Question the rules, when possible make your own -- Brainstorm -- Hopkins -- Gray matter -- Seeing the light -- Finding the steel in your soul.- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo.; Mexican Americans; Migrant labor; Neurosurgeons; Transients and Migrants;
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- Movin' on: The great migration north. by Yamasaki, Mitch.(CARDINAL)842740;
1220L- Subjects: African American migrants; Migration; Transients and migrants;
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- Homelessness : a documentary and reference guide / by Shumsky, Neil L.,1944-(CARDINAL)729795;
MARCIVE 8/1/13Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. I. Words and numbers : Words ; Numbers -- pt. II. Hoboes, tramps, and bums, 1790-1930 : Ben Reitman defines hobo, tramp, and bum ; Jack London explains "the rods" ; Train jumping ; A migrant farm worker ; The extent of the problem, 1890-1925 ; Country lodgings ; The stem, or main stem ; The hobo jungle ; "Tramp-speak" and the hobo subculture ; Hobo songs ; Hobo politics ; The hobo college ; Hobohemia disappears -- pt. III. Migrants and transients, 1930-1960 : On the farm ; In the city ; Bonus army ; FERA and FTP ; Bum brigade ; Squatters ; Weedpatch camp ; Hooverville ; Picking grapes in Lodi ; Arts and culture ; Liquidating the Federal Transient Program -- pt. IV. Street people, bag ladies, and homeless people : Defining homelessness and counting homeless people : Charles Dickens coins the word ; Congress defines homeless ; Mitch Snyder claims "millions" ; HUD disagrees sharply ; Making sense of the conflict ; The number of homeless -- Who are the homeless? : An overview of the homeless population today ; Special populations of homeless people ; Homeless children and their families ; Homeless veterans ; Homeless people in rural areas ; Homeless people of color ; Homeless Latinos and a different perspective -- Contending with homelessness : Staying alive: homeless people cope ; Housing for the homeless ; Criminalizing the homeless ; Washington takes the lead.This book presents an unflinching investigation of homelessness in the United States--a problem that has been with us since the arrival of the first English settlers nearly 400 years ago. --from publisher description- Subjects: Homelessness; Homelessness;
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- Nomadland [sound recording] : surviving America in the twenty-first century / by Bruder, Jessica,author.(CARDINAL)345950; White, Karen,(Karen Elizabeth)narrator.(CARDINAL)824873;
Read by Karen White.The author chronicles her time embedded in a pool of transient older Americans who have taken to the road in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads, migrant laborers who call themselves "workampers."- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Casual labor; Migrant labor; Older people; Recreational vehicle living; Retirees; Retirement; Van life; Working poor;
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- Bordertown [videorecording] / by Blanchett, Cate.; Weaving, Hugo.;
Starring Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving.To the outside, Baringa appears bleak and remote: a converted army barracks in a dusty, isolated region of Australia, miles from the sea. It is hardly the place you would pick to start a new life, but for its inhabitants, it's where their dreams begin (and sometimes crumble). Cate Blanchett ( The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Robin Hood ) guest stars in this touching series set within a fictional migrant camp in post-war Australia. Bordertown is a moving (and often comic) look at the lives, hopes and memories of one transient group of dreamers. The rough Australian landscape and lack of luxuries cannot deter the temporary inhabitants of Baringa. They flock there from Italy, the Netherlands, England and beyond to gain a foothold on a new existence. Among their number are craftsmen, tormented lovers, rigid military types and drifters with a criminal past. Their languages and goals may differ, but this diverse population is united in their hopes of a fresh start, a break that will finally change their luck. In the engrossing tales of love, death, money and life among these starry-eyed immigrants, you too will experience the magic and mystery of Bordertown .Unrated.Box set, Color, NTSC.- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- October in the Earth : a novel / by Hawker, Olivia,author.(CARDINAL)833947;
Del Wensley, wife of the most celebrated preacher in Harlan County, tries to mind her place. Until her husband's infidelity pushes an already strained marriage to a breaking point. Clinging to her last hope for self-respect, Del turns her back on the rigid life she's known. A coal train is rolling through the valley. With her eyes wide open to the unfamiliar, and to the freedom she craves, Del takes to the rails. Rumbling across America, Del is soon drawn into a transient community among outcasts--and finds a special friend in Louisa Trout. A nomadic single mother, Louisa teaches Del the ways of the boxcars and promises to help her reach a migrant enclave where Del can learn the skills she'll need to survive. But as they move forward together under desperate circumstances, even the closest of bonds threatens to break. With the Depression taking its toll, Del must gather her strength and faith. As she carries on toward one unknown after another, her life becomes a fulfilling, sometimes dangerous, and exhilarating adventure. But no matter the risks, it's a life that she alone controls.- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Railroad fiction.; Historical fiction.; Christian fiction.; Novels.; Adultery; Female friendship; Runaway wives; Tramps; Railroad stories.; Women's friendships.;
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- Nomadland : surviving America in the twenty-first century / by Bruder, Jessica,author.(CARDINAL)345950;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-273).Foreword -- The squeeze Inn -- The end -- Surviving America -- Escape plan -- Amazon town -- The gathering place -- The Rubber Tramp Rendezvous -- Halen -- Some unbeetable experiences -- The H word -- Homecoming -- Coda: The octopus in the coconut."From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads: migrant laborers who call themselves "workampers." In a secondhand vehicle she christens "Van Halen," Jessica Bruder hits the road to get to know her subjects more intimately. Accompanying her irrepressible protagonist, Linda May, and others, from campground toilet cleaning to warehouse product scanning to desert reunions, then moving on to the dangerous work of beet harvesting, Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy--one that foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time, she celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these quintessential Americans who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive. Like Linda May, who dreams of finding land on which to build her own sustainable "Earthship" home, they have not given up hope."--- Subjects: Older people; Retirees; Retirement; Casual labor; Working poor; Migrant labor; Recreational vehicle living; Van life;
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