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January 2016 Issue [Annotation]

The Lottery

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The false promises of foreign-labor recruiters

by Vanessa Gregory,

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Vanessa Gregoryis an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi and a recipient of the Literary Arts Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission. Her article “Surviving a Failed Pregnancy” appeared in the June 2015 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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