Reviews tagging 'Trafficking'

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay In Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli

9 reviews

liambossant's review against another edition

informative sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Racism, Violence, Trafficking, and Deportation

gvstyris's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, and Deportation

Minor: Trafficking

ka_cam's review against another edition

informative sad fast-paced

3.75

This book fell victim to my high expectations, I think it would be a more informative and moving read by someone who is new to the subject of migration and asylum. Maybe it was too short to do more than a shallow overview, but I was hoping for more analysis and class/racial consciousness in her reflections. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Racism, Rape, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Classism

lady_bountiful's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Racism, Rape, Violence, Xenophobia, Trafficking, and Deportation

joe_dmh's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Abandonment, and Deportation

leonardo_jules's review against another edition

emotional informative fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Racism, Violence, and Deportation

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Murder, Sexual harassment, and War

Minor: Death of parent

suspicious_salmon's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, and Classism

nffictionophile's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

"What a cage is to the wild beast, the law is to the selfish man."
- Herbert Spencer

Latin American inmigrant detention stats started going upwards during George Bush's presidency, Monstrous Obama built cages at the Mexico-USA border to detain child immigrants, the default immigration policy of Obama become standard procedure during Trump's regime where children became separated from their families, and now under Biden the detention is at its peak. But one thing they never ponder over while detaining them, keeping them in Ice shelters to sterilize, putting them in cages; how these kids without a single criminal record can be a threat to their greatest country?
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Working as an interpreter/translator during this period, Luiselli's job was to ask them 40 questions about their past, present and future, hear their stories and translate them accordingly. The drug war-ridden Mexican kids told her the stories which a great country considers as a threat to their great image. 
 On their way from their motherland to get a new life, they have already faced the unimaginable acts by gangs, coyotes, the army personnel and at the detention centres; the uncertainty of their lives. 'Tell me how it ends' leaves with countless numbers of questions beyond those 40 questions during the screenings procedures of those kids; aka the 'Illegal immigrants'. 
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So why do they choose to come to the US? - In the hope of getting a living a new life away from those nightmares. 
"The children who cross Mexico and arrive at the U.S. border are not “immigrants,” not “illegals,” not merely “undocumented minors.” Those children are refugees of war, and, as such, they should all have the right to asylum. But not all of them have it." 

If they are in search of a new life then what was the priority of creating a juvenile docket? Who was defending these children, and who was accusing them? And of what crime, exactly?

Do they feel safe and happy at the beginning of a new life in the US? - How would anyone who is stigmatized as an 'illegal immigrant' at a young age feel safe and happy?

Don't the Government have any basic duty from the humanitarian ground regarding this matter?
"Luiselli - Any problems with the government in your home country? If so, what happened?
Manu - My government? Write this down in your notebook: they don’t do shit for anybody like me, that’s the problem."
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All of those minors took an uncertain journey as a war refuge but ended up as illegal immigrants.
They only hoped that the cruelty of the nation's borders was only a thin crust and that on the other side a possible life was waiting. A 100 pages essay 'Tell me how it ends' ends with the notion that it never gonna end. Those minors might get citizenship, might end up in asylums, might get splattered with bullets, might die in the deserts or might end up as a victim of drug and sex trafficking. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug use, Rape, and Trafficking

ladymirtazapine's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Trafficking, and Murder