American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins

by Sarah J. Mahler

Book Overview

American Dreaming chronicles in rich detail the struggles of immigrants who have fled troubled homelands in search of a better life in the United States, only to be marginalized by the society that they hoped would embrace them. Sarah Mahler draws from her experiences living among undocumented Salvadoran and South American immigrants in a Long Island suburb of Manhattan. In moving interviews they describe their disillusionment with life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691037825
• ISBN13: 9780691037820
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"