TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mehta,Suketu
TI  - This land is our land: an immigrant's manifesto 
SN  - 9780374276027
AV  - JV6465 M498t 2019
U1  - 305.9/069120973 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Cultural assimilation
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Refugees
KW  - United States
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Western countries
KW  - Ethnic relations
N1  - 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
N2  - "An argument for why the United States and the West should accept more immigrants, and would benefit from doing so."
ER  -