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This Land Is Our Land

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by Suketu Mehta


  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

  Newsletter Sign-up

  Copyright

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  Copyright © 2019 by Suketu Mehta

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  First edition, 2019

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  Excerpt from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Copyright © 1925 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Copyright renewed © 1953 by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan. Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

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