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This Land Is Our Land - An Immigrant's Manifesto (Hardcover)
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This Land Is Our Land - An Immigrant's Manifesto (Hardcover)
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An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed
author of Maximum City. Drawing on his family'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. The West, he argues,
is being destroyed not by immigrants but by the fear of immigrants.
He juxtaposes the phony narratives of populist ideologues with the
ordinary heroism of labourers, nannies and others, from Dubai to
New York, and explains why more people are on the move today than
ever before. As civil strife and climate change reshape large parts
of the planet, it is little surprise that borders have become so
porous. This Land is Our Land also stresses the destructive
legacies of colonialism and global inequality on large swathes of
the world. When today's immigrants are asked, 'Why are you here?',
they can justly respond, 'We are here because you were there.' And
now that they are here, as Mehta demonstrates, immigrants bring
great benefits, enabling countries and communities to flourish.
Impassioned, rigorous, and richly stocked with memorable stories
and characters, This Land Is Our Land is a timely and necessary
intervention, and literary polemic of the highest order.
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