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The Great Escape : A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America, Paperback / softback Book

The Great Escape : A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America Paperback / softback

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In late 2006, Saket Soni, a twenty-eight-year-old Indian-born community organizer, received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker in Mississippi.

He was one of five hundred men trapped in squalid Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by barbed wire, watched by guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid toilets, forced to eat mouldy bread and frozen rice.

Recruiters had promised them good jobs and green cards.

The men had scraped up $20,000 each for this "opportunity" to rebuild hurricane-wrecked oil rigs, leaving their families in impossible debt.

During a series of clandestine meetings, Soni and the workers devised a bold plan.

In The Great Escape, Soni traces the workers' extraordinary escape, their march on foot to Washington, DC, and their twenty-three-day hunger strike to bring attention to their cause.

Along the way, ICE agents try to deport the men, company officials work to discredit them, and politicians avert their eyes.

But none of this shakes the workers' determination to win their dignity and keep their promises to their families. Weaving a deeply personal journey with a riveting tale of twenty-first-century forced labour, Soni takes us into the lives of the immigrant workers the United States increasingly relies on to rebuild after climate disasters.

The Great Escape is the gripping story of one of the largest human trafficking cases in modern American history-and the workers' heroic journey for justice.

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