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03766aam a22007818i 4500 001 5E8A17C4A2C711ED850ED7DB26ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230202010041 008 221107s2023 ncu b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2022038752 020 $a 1643750089 020 $a 9781643750088 035 $a (OCoLC)1350426995 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d OPW $d QX7 $d VP@ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ms 100 1 $a Soni, Saket, $d 1977- $e author. 245 14 $a The great escape : $b a true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams in America / $c Saket Soni. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Chapel Hill, North Carolina : $b Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, $c [2023] 300 $a 352 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Dreams -- Man camp -- Escape -- Truth march -- Hunted -- Faith -- Epilogue: forgetting. 520 $a "In 2007, Saket Soni received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker inside a Mississippi labor camp. He and 500 other men were living in squalor in Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid portable toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Worse, lured by the promise of good work and green cards, the men had desperately scraped together up to 20,000 dollars each to apply for this "opportunity" to rebuild oil rigs after Hurricane Katrina, putting their families into impossible debt. Soni traces the workers' extraordinary escape; their march on foot to Washington, DC; and their 31-day hunger strike to bring attention to their cause"-- $c Provided by publisher. 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a Forced labor $z Mississippi $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Immigrants $z United States $x Social conditions $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Foreign workers $z Mississippi $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Labor camps $z Mississippi $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Escapes $z Mississippi $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Exploitation. 650 7 $a Escapes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00915129 650 7 $a Exploitation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00918547 650 7 $a Forced labor. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00931594 650 7 $a Foreign workers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01729099 650 7 $a Immigrants $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00967782 650 7 $a Labor camps. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00989882 651 7 $a Mississippi. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01207034 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 25 952 $l FGPD194 $d 20240515012913.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409043718.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20240402013543.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314024403.0 952 $l YAPC771 $d 20240118010800.0 952 $l CPPC926 $d 20231111011757.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010033751.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20230817010256.0 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718100443.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629015404.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230603010446.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20230602010629.0 952 $l CQPE926 $d 20230516010522.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230512010328.0 952 $l BNPD611 $d 20230418010335.0 952 $l ZXPC675 $d 20230406010215.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230405013433.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20230401010236.0 952 $l HRPE845 $d 20230310011102.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230307010619.0 952 $l SCPC074 $d 20230304010801.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230302010408.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20230221011359.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20230209021256.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20230202011230.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5E8A17C4A2C711ED850ED7DB26ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search