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...Will Always Stay Me: Writing of Migrant Children would seem an ideal opportunity for a soapbox edition of children's poetry. A collaboration between Robert Coles, Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities, and Sherry Kafka, a former Loeb Fellow, the anthology was born in a creative workshop program in South Texas elementary and high schools, where most of the students are from Mexican immigrant families and speak English as a foreign language. And yet Kafka's preface immediately clears the book of any charge of smugness: "The selections...were chosen because they were the most representative of the writing...
...anthology-it is a refreshing approach to social studies. The book actually examines Mexican immigrant culture in South Texas through the eyes of its children, its most honest and innocent citizens. Aged six to 17, the children reveal about their lives everything from their daily activities of school and migrant from labor to the many shocking realities they must face, as well as their ambitions for and fears of the future...
...just as inevitably cyclical as the flux of international negotiations. Both times, South African officials had immediately suggested SWAPO as culprits; they noted the guerrilla group's opposition to any Turnhalle-type talks, in which Elifas had also agreed to participate shortly before his assassination. Even then, some Ovambo migrant workers opposed to the conference had been quoted in the New York Times as predicting "jubilantly" that "Clemens Kapuuo will be next...
...individual voices deal the strongest emotional punch--particularly Bernstein, who varies her tone and character effortlessly from scrappy, Horatio-Alger-like preteen newsboy to gentle, pained, unfulfilled wife and mother, and Barry Mann, who as a migrant worker urging a grapes boycott evokes a universe of hardship and anger in Spanish melody...
Newsweek's policy of immigration restrictions that crack down on illegal aliens would also do very little to decrease unemployment. Illegal aliens and migrants almost always work at jobs that American citizens are unwilling to take. This fall, for example, the state of Vermont contacted unemployed residents and encouraged them to work as apple-pickers--jobs traditionally filled by migrant workers from the Dominican Republic. Responses were almost uniformly negative. As one man put it. "There's no way I'm gonna work for under $8 an hour...