Voices in Motion: Stories of Migration

Voices in Motion brings readers inside the lived experience of Latino migrants in the United States through intimate, connected stories built on years of research and interviews. Drawing on dozens of conversations with migrants from across Latin America, Ricardo Gómez creates fictionalized, composite characters whose journeys are shaped by displacement, hope, fear, love, and endurance.A Venezuelan mother forced to leave her children's father behind. A gay Colombian engineer navigating Silicon Valley. A Peruvian refugee who builds an unlikely friendship with an Afghan asylum seeker. A janitor who finds belonging through community organizing. A young woman shaped by DACA. A trafficking survivor. A man who dies in ICE detention.Fifteen characters, fifteen journeys, and the human weight the statistics leave out.For readers of Tayari Jones and of Arlie Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Land.