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This land is our land : an immigrant's manifesto  Cover Image Book Book

This land is our land : an immigrant's manifesto / Suketu Mehta.

Mehta, Suketu, (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374276027
  • ISBN: 0374276021
  • Physical Description: x, 306 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-289) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: 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.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Ethnic relations.
Immigrants > Cultural assimilation.
Immigrants > Social conditions.
Refugees > Social conditions.
United States.
Western countries.

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