PositiveFinancial TimesSome of the most affecting pages of Homelands recount the fear now stalking Mexicans who are in the US illegally ... Corchado is sharp on the geopolitical influences on migration, including the labour shortages created by two world wars, which sucked in Mexican workers, and the devastating impact of the attacks of September 11 2001 ... The book is far from perfect. There are inexplicable errors such as a reference to the 1995 US midterm elections. Perhaps too much knowledge of Mexico — and Spanish — is taken for granted ... But the book brings the dilemma of the immigrant powerfully home.
