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Author Nfon, Charles

Title Greener from a distance / Charles Nfon
Published [Place of publication not identified] : African Books Collective, 2013

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Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction; 1. American visa; 2. America here I come; 3. At the airport; 4. Identity Relay; 5. Marriages of Convenience; 6. Paul, the Powerful; 7. Matt the cheat; 8. What about a success story?; 9. To stay or not to stay; Note to the reader; Back cover
Summary Albertís life dream is to immigrate to the USA, to seek greener pastures. After several failed attempts, he finally gets a visa. Then he arrives the USA hoping for a bright and easy future. Before long he hears stories of desperation, struggles and a few successes. Desperation is portrayed by Mola aka Mboma who adopts a dead manís identity in order to stay in the USA and by Bruno who marries a US-born woman as his ticket to the USA, knowing fully well that she was leading a double life. Struggles are seen in Paul and Matt who have to work more than two times harder to barely survive in the USA
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Subject Immigrants -- United States -- Anecdotes
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Emigration and immigration
Immigrants
SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140040
Subject United States
Genre/Form Anecdotes
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789956790180
9956790184
1299676987
9781299676985