Description What happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U.
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In the 1990s, he worked on the U.
He is the author of White Bread: A Social HiStory of the Store-Bought Loaf and Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas.
His writing has appeared in Believer, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review, Salon, and Gastronomica.
S.-Mexico border.
About the author Aaron Bobrow-Strain is a professor of politics at Whitman College, where he teaches courses dealing with food, immigration, and the U.
He also shows us that the heroes of our current immigration wars are less likely to be perfect paragons of virtue than complex, flawed human beings who deserve justice and empathy all the same.
With emotional force and narrative suspense, Aaron Bobrow-Strain brings us into the heart of a violently unequal America.
Taking us into detention centers, immigration courts, and the inner lives of Aida and other daring characters, The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez reveals the human consequences of militarizing what was once a more forgiving border.
The daughter of a rebel hero from the mountains of Chihuahua, Aida has a genius for survival--but returning to the United States was just the beginning of her quest.
To get back to the United States and reunite with her son, she embarked on a harrowing journey.
Following a misstep that led to her deportation, Aida found herself in a Mexican city marked by violence, in a country that was not hers.
But Life had other plans.
She learned English, watched Friends, and, after having a baby at sixteen, dreamed of teaching dance and moving with her son to New York City.
Undocumented, Aida fought to make her way.
By then, the Border had become one of the most heavily policed sites in America.
Eight years later, Aida\'s mother took her and her siblings to live in Douglas, Arizona. Border was little more than a worn-down fence.
S. immigration system?When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.
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Description What happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U
