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"In Tortillas and Tomatoes Tanya Basok exposes the mechanisms that make Mexican seasonal workers unfree. She shows that workers are unable to refuse employer demands for their labour because of economic need and the rigid control exercised by the Mexican Ministry of Labour and Social Planning as well as the paternalistic relationship between the Mexican harvesters and their Canadian employers."--Jacket

Costa Rica has a long-established humanitarian tradition as a country of asylum for refugees fleeing repressive regimes in other South American countries. Salvadorean refugees began arriving in Costa Rica in 1980, and many of them received assistance directed at making them self-sufficient. In Keeping Heads Above Water Tanya Basok focuses on the urban development programs funded and implemented by various international and domestic, governmental and non-governmental agencies. Basing her study on extensive field-work with Salvadorean refugees, she addresses the questions of why some small urban refugee enterprises failed, and how and why others survived and flourished.

Building on insights and data from his diverse research projects conducted during more than a quarter-century, David Griffith presents an excellent exposé of the working conditions of Jamaican and Mexican migrant workers on an H-2 visa in the United States.

Threatening Others: Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica. Carlos Sandoval‐García. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. 263 pp.