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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored: How Workers Escape, with Saket Soni
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Migration is almost always connected to work, and is usually the product of some combination of aspiration and desperation, ambition and escape. Saket Soni’s new book, The Great Escape, recounts the journey of a group of Indian migrant workers who came to the Gulf Coast in the af...