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As the current national attention continues to focus on undocumented workers, this book will prove to be an accessible aid to general readers hoping to gain insight into the world of these workers. Schryer (emer., Univ. of Guelph, Canada) rightly points to the fact that though the economic integration of goods and capital has made tremendous progress in US-Mexico relations, people moving across the border have been the victims of a dysfunctional immigration policy. This dysfunction resultsin enormous human cost and consequences on both sides of the border; families and children experience great personal trauma, especially the undocumented who live in the shadow of fear. Through anecdotes from the lives of people of the Altos Balsas region of Mexico, Schryerillustrates the push and pull factors that have created the situation of the undocumented worker and the benefits to rural Mexican villages where migrant dollars help sustain local economies. A human account of the anguish and life journeys of undocumented workers, the book is written in an accessible manner, which will serve both readers and policy makers well as they try to peer behind the statistics and polemics surrounding the policy response to undocumented workers in the US. -B.P. Corrie, Choice (March 2015) They Never Come Back is a compelling book. Frans J. Schryer's command of Nahuat, his long association with the sending area, and his long-term friendships with the migrants allow him to give a real feeling for the hopes, dreams, and realities that the immigrants face as they address each border as well as the realities for the families and the communities left behind. He paints a vivid picture of an indigenous people who are adept at adapting to economic and political change while maintaining their sense of community. -Cornelia Flora, Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus, Iowa State University, author of Rural Communities: Legacy and Change They Never Come Back is at once big and small, balancing thick description of a group of people with broader analyses of an issue, global economic integration, that affects us all. And this book is written for all, with a narrative that is compelling, engaging, and refreshingly accessible. This is some of the best of what ethnography can offer to contemporary public debates. -Ruth Gomberg-Munoz, Loyola University Chicago, author of Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network

They Never Come Back is a compelling book. Frans J. Schryer's command of Nahuat, his long association with the sending area, and his long-term friendships with the migrants allow him to give a real feeling for the hopes, dreams, and realities that the immigrants face as they address each border as well as the realities for the families and the communities left behind. He paints a vivid picture of an indigenous people who are adept at adapting to economic and political change while maintaining their sense of community. -Cornelia Flora, Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus, Iowa State University, author of Rural Communities: Legacy and Change

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Frans J. Schryer is Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph. He is the author of several books, including Farming in a Global Economy: A Case Study of Dutch Immigrant Farmers in Canada and The Rancheros of Pisaflores: The History of a Peasant Bourgeoisie in Twentieth-Century Mexico.

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