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This land is our land an immigrant's manifesto

"There are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and rancor these days than immigration. In [this book], the renowned author Suketu Mehta offers a reality-based polemic that vitally clarifies the debate. Drawing on his own experience as an Indian-born teenager growing up in New Y...

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Main Author: Mehta, Suketu (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Immigrants > Cultural assimilation.
Immigrants > Social conditions > 21st century.
Refugees > Social conditions > 21st century.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Western countries > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Western countries > Ethnic relations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: The migrants are coming. A planet on the move ; The fence : amargo y dulce ; Ordinary heroes ; Two sides of a strait
  • Part II: Why they're coming. Colonialism ; The new colonialism ; War ; Climate change
  • Part III: Why they're feared. The populists' false narrative ; A brief history of fear ; Culture : shitholes versus Nordics ; The color of hate ; The alliance between the mob and capital ; The refugee as pariah
  • Part 4: Why they should be welcomed. Jaikisan Heights ; Jobs, crime, and culture : the threats that aren't ; We do not come empty-handed ; Immigration as reparations
  • Epilogue: Family, reunified--and expanded.

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