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...
| Main Author: | Mehta, Suketu (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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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.