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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2019]Edition: First editionDescription: x, 306 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374276027
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.9/069120973 23
LOC classification:
  • JV6465 M498t 2019
Contents:
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.
Summary: "An argument for why the United States and the West should accept more immigrants, and would benefit from doing so." --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 Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Automatización y Procesos Técnicos Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso) JV6465 M498t 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000190467

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." --Provided by publisher.

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