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100 1  Soni, Saket,|d1977-|eauthor. 
245 14 The great escape :|ba true story of forced labor and 
       immigrant dreams in America /|cSaket Soni. 
246 30 True story of forced labor and immigrant dreams in America
250    First edition 
264  1 Chapel Hill :|bAlgonquin Books,|c2023. 
300    368 pages ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0  Dreams -- Man camp -- Escape -- Truth march -- Hunted -- 
       Faith -- Epilogue: forgetting. 
520    "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"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
650  0 Forced labor|zMississippi|xHistory|y21st century. 
650  0 Immigrants|zUnited States|xSocial conditions|y21st 
       century. 
650  0 Foreign workers|zMississippi|xHistory|y21st century. 
650  0 Labor camps|zMississippi|xHistory|y21st century. 
650  0 Escapes|zMississippi|xHistory|y21st century. 
650  0 Exploitation. 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628