This land is our land : an immigrant's manifesto /

Mehta, Suketu, 1963-

This land is our land : an immigrant's manifesto / Suketu Mehta. - First edition. - x, 306 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. The migrants are coming -- A planet on the move -- The fence: amargo y dulce -- Ordinary heroes -- Two sides of a strait -- Part 2. Why they're coming -- Colonialism -- The new colonialism -- War -- Climate change -- Part 3. Why they're feared -- The populists' false narrative -- A brief history of fear -- Culture: shitholes vs 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.

"An argument for why the United States and the West should accept more immigrants, and would benefit from doing so."

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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.

JV6465 / M498t 2019

305.9/069120973