This Land is Our Land
An Immigrant's Manifesto
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: x, 306 pages ; 22 cm
"An argument for why the United States and the West should accept more immigrants, and would benefit from doing so." --Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The migrants are coming -- A planet on the move -- The fence: amargo y dulce -- Ordinary heroes -- Two sides of a strait -- Why they're coming -- Colonialism -- The new colonialism -- War -- Climate change -- 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 -- 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.
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.
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.
ISBN:
9780374276027 (hardcover)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI Migration Meh | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-289) and index.