This land is our land : an immigrant's manifesto
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
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Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780374276027, 0374276021
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages ; 21 cm
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Manchester City Library - Nonfiction - Main Floor - Nonfiction Shelves
305.90691 MEH
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780374276027, 0374276021

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-289) and index.
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"There are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and rancor these days than immigration. In [this book], the renowned author Suketu Mehta offers a reality-based polemic that vitally clarifies the debate. Drawing on his own experience as an Indian-born teenager growing up in New York City and on years of reporting around the globe, Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering scrutiny. As he explains, the West is being destroyed not by immigrants but by fear of immigrants. Ranging from Dubai and Morocco to New York City, Mehta contrasts the phony narratives of populist ideologues with the ordinary heroism of laborers, domestic workers, and others, and he takes readers on a heartbreaking trip to San Diego and Tijuana, where a border fence divides families and damages lives. Throughout, Mehta shows 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. But Mehta also stresses the destructive legacies of colonialism and global inequality in large swaths 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, Mehta contends, they bring great benefits, enabling countries and communities to flourish. Impassioned, rigorous, and richly stocked with memorable stories and characters, [this book] is an urgent and necessary intervention, and a literary argument of the highest order."--Dust jacket.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Mehta, S. (2019). This land is our land: an immigrant's manifesto (First edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Mehta, Suketu. 2019. This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Mehta, Suketu. This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Mehta, Suketu. This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto First edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

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