This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto
by Suketu Mehta
Description
A sharp, reality-based polemic, this book follows an immigrant’s coming-of-age in New York and expands into years of global reporting to confront the anti-immigrant backlash roiling public life. Moving from cities and border zones to places shaped by colonial legacies, it challenges fear-driven narratives and asks what really lies behind the politics of “outsiders.” Through vivid encounters with workers, domestic laborers, and families caught in the machinery of borders, it explores themes of displacement, inequality, and the moral contradictions of a world that benefits from migration while punishing it. With the urgency of a manifesto and the narrative power of literary nonfiction, it argues that immigrants are not the threat to the West—fear is—and that the question “Why are you here?” has a history that cannot be ignored.
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hardcover
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Jun 4, 2019
320 pages
ISBN: 9780374276027
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First Published
2019
Language
eng
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