Everyone who is gone is here : the United States, Central America, and making of a crisis / Jonathan Blitzer.

By:

Blitzer, Jonathan

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2024Description: xi, 523 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781984880802 (hardcover)
1984880802 (hardcover)

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Everyone who is gone is hereDDC classification:

305.9/0691209728

LOC classification:

JV 6483 B649e 2024

Contents:

Part 1. The heart doctor The true identity of the people of God The general and his boots Spanish for Vietnam Something immigrant and hungry Pro bono coyotes We can't stop, but do we have any other choice? They don't even let you fuck in peace The Guatemalan solution The red bishop Living as long as the republic does Smugglers with a conscience Stepsister of the government The heart doctor speaks A park called pain Sanctuary goes to trial Nothing more permanent than a temporary immigrant The doctor and the general Part 2. Half anthropologist, half wannabe hood Gang wars La Clínica del Pueblo Hispanics versus Blacks versus Whites War zones Operation blockade Above the rest The third rail of American politics Fast Eddie The sisters The trial Homieland The reformers Part 3. The voice of God Deporter in chief Border emergency Memory card Trump Killing fields Los nerds La pastora Stay at your own risk Do I have to come here injured or dead? The highlands at the border We need concrete information The caravan Solidarity 2000 Remain in Mexico Rewriting asylum Part 4. The heart doctor The Wuhan of the Americas Eddie and Juan Keldy Lucrecia Simply not who we are Home.

Summary: Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far from their homes. An overwhelming share of them come from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, although many migrants come from farther away. Some are fleeing persecution, others crime or hunger. Very often it will not be their first attempt to cross. They may have already been deported from the United States, but it remains their only hope for safety and prosperity. Their homes have become uninhabitable. They will take their chances. This vast and unremitting crisis did not spring up overnight. Indeed, as Blitzer dramatizes with forensic, unprecedented reporting, it is the result of decades of misguided policy and sweeping corruption. Brilliantly weaving the stories of Central Americans whose lives have been devastated by chronic political conflict and violence with those of American activists, government officials, and the politicians responsible for the country's tragically tangled immigration policy, Blitzer reveals the full, layered picture for the first time."-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Ciencias Sociales	Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso)	JV 6483 B649e 2024 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000190365

Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-506) and index.

Part 1. The heart doctor
The true identity of the people of God
The general and his boots
Spanish for Vietnam
Something immigrant and hungry
Pro bono coyotes
We can't stop, but do we have any other choice?
They don't even let you fuck in peace
The Guatemalan solution
The red bishop
Living as long as the republic does
Smugglers with a conscience
Stepsister of the government
The heart doctor speaks
A park called pain
Sanctuary goes to trial
Nothing more permanent than a temporary immigrant
The doctor and the general
Part 2. Half anthropologist, half wannabe hood
Gang wars
La Clínica del Pueblo
Hispanics versus Blacks versus Whites
War zones
Operation blockade
Above the rest
The third rail of American politics
Fast Eddie
The sisters
The trial
Homieland
The reformers
Part 3. The voice of God
Deporter in chief
Border emergency
Memory card
Trump
Killing fields
Los nerds
La pastora
Stay at your own risk
Do I have to come here injured or dead?
The highlands at the border
We need concrete information
The caravan
Solidarity 2000
Remain in Mexico
Rewriting asylum
Part 4. The heart doctor
The Wuhan of the Americas
Eddie and Juan
Keldy
Lucrecia
Simply not who we are
Home.

Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far from their homes. An overwhelming share of them come from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, although many migrants come from farther away. Some are fleeing persecution, others crime or hunger. Very often it will not be their first attempt to cross. They may have already been deported from the United States, but it remains their only hope for safety and prosperity. Their homes have become uninhabitable. They will take their chances. This vast and unremitting crisis did not spring up overnight. Indeed, as Blitzer dramatizes with forensic, unprecedented reporting, it is the result of decades of misguided policy and sweeping corruption. Brilliantly weaving the stories of Central Americans whose lives have been devastated by chronic political conflict and violence with those of American activists, government officials, and the politicians responsible for the country's tragically tangled immigration policy, Blitzer reveals the full, layered picture for the first time."-- Provided by publisher.

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