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Nowrasteh, Alex
NPR
nuclear weapons
Numbers USA
Obama, Barack
Ocampo, Rae
Och, Dan
Och-Ziff Capital Management
oil
O’Neill, Tip
open borders
Operation Fast and Furious
Operation Gatekeeper
Operation PBFORTUNE
Operation PBSUCCESS
Opium Wars
Orbán, Viktor
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Origins of Totalitarianism, The (Arendt)
O’Sullivan, John L.
Oxford University
Özden, Çağlar
Pakistan; arms in; India and; in Partition
Pakistani Americans
Pakistani Rangers
Palan, Ronen
Palestinian Americans
Palestinians
Palmer Raids
Panama Papers
Papua New Guinea
Paradise Papers
Paris Agreement
Passage to India, A (Forster)
“Passage to India” (Whitman)
passports
Peck, Virgil
pedestrians’ revolt
Peri, Giovanni
Persian Gulf nations
Peru
Pew Hispanic Center
Philippines
Planned Parenthood
Poland
political asylum, see asylum seekers
Pompeo, Mike
Population Bomb, The (Ehrlich)
population(s): aging of; declines in; increases in; predicted explosion of
populist narratives
pork
Posner, Eric
poverty
Powell, Enoch
Prager, Dennis
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Puerto Rico
Punjabi Boys Network
Quakers
Quebec
Quit India movement
“race,” definitions of
racism
Radcliffe, Sir Cyril
Radio Télévision Libre des Milles
Ramadan
Randolph, A. Philip
rape
Raspail, Jean
Reagan, Ronald
Refugee Act (1980)
refugees; asylum seekers; Bosnian; climate; criteria for; migrants vs.; in New York State; as pariahs; Syrian
remittances
reparations and debts; immigration as reparations; owed by Britain to India; owed by Europe to Latin America; owed by France to Haiti
Republicans
retirees
Revi, Aromar
rice
Ríos Montt, Efraín
Rio Tinto
Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy, The (Stoddard)
Rohingya people
Rolling Stone
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, Teddy
Ross, Wilbur
Royal Africa Company
Royal Indian Army Service Corps
rubber
Rushdie, Salman
Russia
Rwanda
Ryan, Paul
Sachs, Jeffrey
Saddam Hussein
Sadeak, Shaker
Sahara
Salman of Saudi Arabia
Sanchez, Joseph
Sanger, Margaret
Sankara, Thomas
Santa Marta
Saro-Wiwa, Ken
Saudi Arabia
Schenectady, N.Y.
Schwarz, Carlo
Science Advances
Scott, Rodney
Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. (SEC)
Sengupta, Somini
September 11 terrorist attacks; Muslim center near Ground Zero
Serbia
Sessions, Jeff
sex
Sharma, Ruchir
Shaxson, Nicholas
Shell Oil Company
Sikhs
Silicon Valley
silver
Singapore
slavery
Slovenia
social security
Somalia, Somalis
Somoza, Anastasio
Soros, George
Sound of Freedom
South Asia
Soviet Union
Sowell, Thomas
Spain; Tarifa
Spanish Inquisition
Spens, Patrick
Spiegel, Der
Stalin, Joseph
Stanley Hotel
steam engine
Stephens, Bret
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Stoddard, Lothrop
Støjberg, Inger
Stone, Lyman
storytelling; populist narratives
Stuyvesant, Peter
Submission (Houellebecq)
sugar
Sun, The
Suro, Roberto
survival migration
Sweden
Sykes-Picot Agreement
Syria; civil war in; refugees from
Syrian Americans
Taiwan
Tanaomi, Payam
Tangier
Tanton, John
Tarifa
Tasmania
taxes; earned income credit; sales; social security; tax havens
tech workers
Teixeira, Ruy
terrorism; Muslims and; September 11 attacks, see September 11 terrorist attacks
Texas
Tharoor, Shashi
Third World Quarterly
“This Land Is Your Land”
Thorning-Schmidt, Helle
Tijuana
Tillman, Benjamin
To the Netherlands
Tristes Tropiques (Lévi-Strauss)
Trudeau, Justin
Trujillo, Rafael
Truman, Harry
Trump, Friedrich
Trump, Donald; climate change and environmental policies and; family-separation policy and; immigration and; migrant caravan and; Muslims and; Salman and; wall proposal of
Tuaregs
Tunisia
Turkey
Tutsis
Union Bank
Union Carbide
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
United Fruit Corporation
United Kingdom, see Britain
United Nations (UN); Arms Trade Treaty; Human Development Index; IPCC
United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
United States: African Americans in; agriculture in; aid to poor nations from; Army; Central America and; deregulation of financial sector in; economy of; education in; El Salvador and; emigration from; energy usage in; fertility rate in; GDP of; Guatemala and; guns in; income in; income inequality in; interventions in other nations by; Iraq and; longevity in; Mexico’s treaty with; Native Americans in; population density in; population growth in; retirement in; slaves in; voting in
United States, immigrants in; African; age of; Asian; assimilation of; Canadian; in caravan from Honduras; city revitalization and; climate change refugees; crime and; culture and; deportations of; detention centers and; Dreamers; economy and; education of; English language and; family reunification (chain) migration; family-separation policy and; farmworkers; fear of; federal prosecutions and; green cards for; health of; home buying and; and Immigration Act of 1924; and Immigration Act of 1965; Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and; Immigration Reform and Control Act and; incomes of; Indian; interracial births and; Irish; Japanese; jobs and; Latino; in mass migration from Europe; Mexican; National Academy of Sciences report on; “nation of immigrants” phrase and;number of; Obama and; Refugee Act and; restrictions on; skills and talent of; social security and; Teddy Roosevelt on; Trump and; undocumented; undocumented, amnesty for; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and
; voting by; white majority and
United States–Mexican border; Border Patrol and; family-separation policy and; Friendship Park at; guns and; Minutemen and; Trump’s wall for
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
universities
University of Warwick
Utica, N.Y.
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
visas
Vodafone
Voice of America
Wahhabis
Walmart
Walzer, Michael
war; climate change and; refugees from, see refugees
Warren, Pa.
Washington Post, The
water scarcity
Watt, James
Weavers
welfare
Western civilization
Weyl, Glen
wheat
white supremacists
Whitman, Walt
Wilders, Geert
women; rape and
work: jobs; work ethic
World Bank
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World War I
World War II; Indian soldiers in
Yale University
Yasenov, Yasil
Yemen
Zucman, Gabriel
ALSO BY SUKETU MEHTA
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Suketu Mehta is the author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Book Award. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harper’s Magazine, Time, and GQ. He has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Award, and the O. Henry Prize. He was born in Calcutta and lives in New York City, where he is an associate professor of journalism at New York University. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
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
Acknowledgments
Index
Also by Suketu Mehta
A Note About the Author
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