Suketu Mehta

This Land Is Our Land

An Immigrant's Manifesto

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Produktbeschreibung

An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City. Drawing on his familyà â â s own experience emigrating from India to Britain and America, and years of reporting around the world, Suketu Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering scrutiny.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 752771
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 132mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 220g
• ISBN-13: 9781529112955
• ISBN-10: 1529112958
• Artikelnr.: 58678765

Autorenporträt

Suketu Mehta

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: THE MIGRANTS ARE COMING
1. A Planet on the Move
2. The Fence: Amargo y Dulce
3. Ordinary Heroes
4. Two Sides of a Strait
PART II: WHY THEY'RE COMING
5. Colonialism
6. The New Colonialism
7. War
8. Climate Change
PART III: WHY THEY'RE FEARED
9. The Populists' False Narrative
10. A Brief History of Fear
11. Culture: Shitholes Versus Nordics
12. The Color of Hate
13. The Alliance Between the Mob and Capital
14. The Refugee as Pariah
PART IV: WHY THEY SHOULD BE WELCOMED
15. Jaikisan Heights
16. Jobs, Crime, and Culture: The Threats That Aren't
17. We Do Not Come Empty-Handed
18. Immigration as Reparations
Epilogue: Family, Reunified - and Expanded
Notes on Sources
Acknowledgements
Index

Rezensionen

A meticulously researched and deeply felt corrective to the public narrative of who today's migrants are, why they are coming, and what economic and historical forces have propelled them from their homes into faraway lands... This Land Is Our Land reads like an impassioned survey course on migration, laying bare the origins of mass migration in searing clarity... well argued, cathartic and abundantly sourced. The New York Times Book Review