6/12/2023 0 Comments Undocumented by Duncan Tonatiuh![]() ![]() The whole story can be read in minutes, and is a fairly obvious pitch for the laudable efforts of Workers’ Action Centres. He helps organize his co-workers with the aid of the Workers’ Action Centre they strike for justice, sue their employer for labour violations, demand minimum wage, and ultimately they triumph. He gets married and struggles to eke out enough money to survive and raise a family, while continuing to face poverty-level working conditions and exploitative bosses.įinally, a young woman he works with introduces him to a local Workers’ Action Centre. He gets a job in a restaurant where he and his co-workers are exploited by their boss. After a few attempts, he makes it across. Juan, an Indigenous Mexican who doesn’t even speak Spanish, let alone English, is sent (illegally) across the US border to live with an uncle he’s never seen. ![]() The story told in Undocumented is not a new one. With Undocumented: A Worker’s Fight, award-winning Mexican-American author Duncan Tonatiuh shows how stories that are all too common can be reinvented in powerful new ways toward vital contemporary purpose, sometimes by drawing on age-old traditions. ![]()
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