by Suketu Mehta
According to a 2018 Ipsos poll of twenty thousand people in twenty-seven countries: “Canada and the U.S. Have the Most Inclusive Views of Nationality.” Ipsos Global Advisor Survey (June 25, 2018). https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/Canada-US-have-most-inclusive-views-of-nationality.
the first Indian American state senator in North Carolina history: Henry Gargan, “NC’s First Indian-American Legislator Sworn in at Morrisville Town Hall.” News and Observer (January 12, 2017). https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/cary-news/article126109539.html.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Grateful acknowledgments to my wonderful agent, Suzanne Gluck, who first suggested I do this book, and to my editor, Alex Star, whose intelligence and dedication have shaped every page. To everyone at FSG, including Jonathan Galassi, Dominique Lear, Sarita Varma, M. P. Klier, and Henry Kaufman. To Bea Hemming at Jonathan Cape.
To Amy Finnerty for commissioning the article that led to the book.
To Rajae El Mouhandiz in Tangier and Tarifa, Enrique Morones of the Border Angels, Maria Teresa Fernandez and Dan Waterman at Friendship Park.
To Sadia and Cassim Shepard, and Jennifer Acker and Nishi Shah, for the gift of their beautiful homes.
To Alistair Mackay for fact-checking, and Laura Sofia Diaz for transcribing.
To my colleagues at the Arthur Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, for their faith in my work. To the memory of James Alan McPherson and U. R. Ananthamurthy, my gurus.
And to my family: Ramesh and Usha Mehta; Gautama and Akash Mehta; Sejal, Jay, Leeya, and Neel Chaudhuri; Monica, Anand, Anokhi, and Alisha Mehta. This book is your book.
INDEX
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Aboriginals
Abu Dhabi; NYU in
Action-Aid
Adani, Gautam
Afghanistan
Africa; climate change and; colonialism in; North Africa; Och-Ziff Capital Management and; population of; slaves from; South Africa; sub-Saharan; West Africa
African Americans
African migrants; in France; in U.S.
African Union
aging populations
Agriculture, U.S. Department of
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
Ahmed, Shahab
AIDS
Alarcon, Rafael
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, U.S. Bureau of (ATF)
Algeria
Ali, Agha Shahid
“alliance between mob and capital”
All Souls College, Oxford
al-Qaeda
alt right
“amargo y dulce”
American Civil Liberties Union
American colonies
American Economic Review, The
American Party
Americas
AmeriCorps
Amnesty International
Ananthamurthy, U. R.
Anderson, Warren
Anti-Defamation League
Apple Inc.
Árbenz, Jacobo
Arbitral Tribunal
Arendt, Hannah
Aristide, Jean-Bertrand
Arizona
Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project
Army, U.S.
Army of Africa
Asia; South Asia
Asian Americans
al-Assad, Bashar
assimilation
asylum seekers; see also refugees
Atlacatl Battalion
Atlantic, The
Australia
Austria
Bahamas
Balkans
Bangladesh
banks
Bannon, Steve
Barclays
Bauman, Zygmunt
Bayly, Christopher
BBC
Bearak, Max
Beat writers
Belgium
Benali, Abdelkader
Bengal
Betts, Alexander
Bhopal disaster
Bible
Biggar, Nigel
birthrates; interracial
Blackburn, Robin
Blair Corporation
Bloomberg, Michael
Boko Haram
Bolton, John
Bonner, Raymond
Border Angels
Border Patrol, U.S.
borders; freedom of movement and; open
Borjas, George
Bosnian refugees
Bowles, Paul
Boyle, Frankie
Bracero program
Brazil
Break of Dawn
Breitbart News
Breivik, Anders Behring
Brexit
Brin, Sergey
Britain; Brexit and; Commonwealth Immigrants Act in; cotton and; Industrial Revolution in; Iraq and; Muslims in; in Opium Wars; population growth in; Rohingya crisis and; Saudi Arabia and; slavery and; tax havens and
British colonialism; in America; atrocities of; in Australia; famines and; Ferguson on; in India; Koh-i-noor diamond and; Mau Mau guerrilla movement and; Sykes-Picot Agreement and
British East India Company
Broich, John
Brookings Institute
Brown, Scott
Buchanan, Patrick
Buddhists
Burkina Faso
Burma
Burroughs, William
Bush, George W.
Calcutta
California
Cameroon
Camp of the Saints, The (Raspail)
Camus, Renaud
Canada; Quebec
carbon dioxide (CO2)
Cárdenas, Cuauhtémoc
Carens, Joseph
Caribbean
Carlson, Tucker
Casablanca
“Case for Colonialism, The” (Gilley)
cassette tapes
Castro, Fidel
Cato Institute
Center for American Progress
Center for Defense Information
Center for Global Development
Central America; aid for
Centre for Applied Research, Norwegian School of Economics
charity
Charlottesville rally
chemical companies
children
Chile
China; climate change and; middle class in; in Opium Wars; sustainability in
Chiquita Brands
Christians
Churchill, Winston
CIA
Cissna, Lee
citizenship
City of London
Clayburgh, Jill
Clemens, Michael
climate change; migration caused by; Paris Agreement and; refugees from; war and
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
coal
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Cohen, Michael
Cohn, Gary
Colombia; Santa Marta
colonialism; in Africa; of Belgium; colonial troops in wars; corporations and; crops and industries in; of France; GDP and; Gilley on; looting in; migration caused by; reparations for, see reparations and debts; taxes and; U.S. in Latin America as; see also British colonialism
Colorado
Columbus, Christopher
Commonwealth Immigrants Act
Communal Award
communism
Compaoré, Blaise
Congo
Corbyn, Jeremy
corn
corporations; colonialism and; invoicing and; liability and; tax havens and
corruption
Costco
cotton
crime; hate crimes
Crimea
Criminology
Cuba
cuerpomátic
culture
Customs and Border Protection
/>
Cutlip, Ron
DACA
Daily Mail
Danish People’s Party
Dante Alighieri
Davis, Mike
Deasy, John
Delhi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democrats
Denmark
deportation
Desai, Kiran
Detroit, Mich.
developing countries
Dietrich, Constantin
Diner, Hasia
Dockter, Warren
Doha
Dominican Republic
Donnelly, Brian
Dreamers
droughts
drugs; cartels
Dubai
Duke, David
Dulles, Allen
Dulles, John Foster
Dunkirk
Dutch
Dutch East India Company
Duterte, Rodrigo
Dutton, Peter
East India Company
education
Egypt
Egyptian Americans
Ehrlich, Anne
Ehrlich, Paul
Eisenhower, Dwight
electricity
Elizabeth II, Queen
El Mozote
El Salvador
environment; pollution; sustainability; see also climate change
Ethiopia
ethnic cleansing
eugenics and sterilization
Europe; immigrants in; Latin America and; mass migration to U.S. from; Muslims in; population of; terror attacks in; see also colonialism; specific countries
European Union (EU); Brexit and
expats, use of term
extremists; white supremacists
Facebook
Farage, Nigel
fascists
fear
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
fentanyl
Ferguson, Niall
Finkielkraut, Alain
Florida
Flushing Remonstrance
food
Ford, Henry
Forster, E. M.
Fortune 500 companies
Fox TV
France; Algeria and; Burkina Faso and; colonialism of; Haiti and; Muslims in; North Africans in; in Sykes-Picot Agreement
Franco-Prussian War
Franklin, Benjamin
freedom of movement
Friendship Park
Fusion
G7
Gaffney, Frank
Gallup, Inc.
Galvan, Marie
Gandhi, Mahatma
gangs
Gates, Bill
GDP (gross domestic product); of U.S.
Geller, Pamela
Germany; Indian tech workers and
Gerrard, Michael
Ghana
Ghosh, Amitav
Gilchrist, Jim
Gilley, Bruce
Global Financial Integrity
global financial system; inequality and; tax havens in
global skill partnerships
Global Talent Stream
global warming, see climate change
Glosser, David
Glotzer, Wolf and Bessie
gold
Goodell, Jeff
Google
Goss, Stephen
Graham, Lindsey
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald)
Greece
green cards
Greendex study
Greenpeace
Greentree, Todd
Guardian, The
Guatemala
guest workers: Bracero program; use of term
Guinea
Gulf nations
guns
Gurkhas
Guterres, António
Guthrie, Woody
Guyanese immigrants
Haiti
Hamdan, Guillermo
Hamid, Mohsin
Hamtramck
Hankins, Ellis
happiness
Harper, Stephen
Harper, Tim
hate
hate crimes
Hickel, Jason
Higbie, Carl
Hindus
Hispanics, see Latinos and Hispanics
Holland, Netherlands
Holocaust
Homeland Security, U.S. Department of
Honduras; migrant caravan from
Houellebecq, Michel
Hsiang, Solomon
Human Rights Watch
Hungary; Serbia and
Hunt, Jennifer
Huntington, Samuel
hurricanes
Hutchison Essar Ltd
Hutu people
Ibn Battuta
immigrants: assimilation of; fear of; and immigration as reparations; language and; loved ones left by; networks, families, and communities of; ordinary heroism of; populist narratives about; stories of; urban vs. rural attitudes toward; see also migration, migrants; specific countries and issues
Immigration Restriction League
income
income inequality
India; aid to; arms in; Australian coal and; Bhopal disaster in; Border Security Force in; British rule in; Calcutta; Churchill and; climate change and; cotton in; Ehrlich on; famines in; intellectuals in; Koh-i-noor diamond of; middle class in; Pakistan and; Partition of; sustainability in; tech workers in; telecom companies and; U.S. immigrants from; water crisis and; World War II and
Indian Army
Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Indian subcontinent
Indochina
Indonesia
Industrial Revolution
Ingraham, Laura
Inquisition
Instituto Madre Assunta
Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
interlocals
International Anti-Corruption Day
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
International Organization for Migration
invoicing
IPCC
Iran
Iranian Americans
Iranian hostage crisis
Iraq; Britain and; U.S. and
Irish immigrants
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
ISIS
Islam, see Muslims, Islam
Israel
Italy
Ituri conflict
Ivory Coast
Jackson Heights
Jamaica Estates
Japan; boars in
Japanese Americans
Jewel in the Crown, The (Scott)
Jewish Journal, The
Jews
jobs
Jobs, Steve
Jordan
Journal of Climate
Jurczynski, Albert
Justice Department, U.S.
Kaplan, Edward
Kennedy, Ted
Kenney, Jason
Kenya; Mau Mau guerrilla movement and
Khashoggi, Jamal
King, Peter
King, Steve
Kiribati
kissa
knowledge transfer
Know-Nothings
Koreans
Krugman, Paul
Ku Klux Klan
Kwasi, Robert
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Lahren, Tomi
Lake Chad
Lancet, The
language learning
La Raza
Latin America; arms flow into; deportations to; see also Central America; specific countries
Latinos and Hispanics
Leopold II of Belgium
Le Pen, Marine
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Light, Michael
lime trade
longevity
Los Angeles, Calif.
Louverture, Toussaint
Macau
MacLeod, Mary Anne
Macron, Emmanuel
Madagascar
Maddison, Angus
&
nbsp; Maldives
Manus Island
Marielitos
Marshall Islands
Mau Mau guerrilla movement
McClancy High School
McVeigh, Timothy
Mediterranean
Mehta, Suketu: as American citizen; family of; in high school; in Hoboken; in Jackson Heights; at picnic; in Warren, Pa.; in writers’ group
Mendelsohn, Jennifer
Merkel, Angela
Mexico; Bracero guest worker program and; drug cartels in; financial outflows from; guns and; U.S. immigrants from; U.S. treaty with; see also United States–Mexican border
Michoacán
Middle East
migration, migrants; caravan of; climate change as cause of; colonialism as cause of; earnings of; and freedom of movement; global skill partnerships and; institutions and treaties and; long-term benefits of; mass migration; overall number of; in Partition of India; refugees vs. migrants; remittances and; survival migration; use of “migrants” term; see also immigrants; refugees
Milanovic, Branko
Miller, David
Miller, Stephen
mining
minority rights
Minutemen
Mnuchin, Steve
Modi, Narendra
Moluccans
MoneyGram
money transfers
Morocco; Tangier
Moro people
Morrison, Bruce
Mountbatten, Louis, Lord
MS-13
Müller, Karsten
murders
music
Muslim League
Muslims, Islam; assimilation and; in Denmark; Dutch government and; in Europe; hate crimes against; Moro; pork and; Ramadan and; religious center near Ground Zero; terrorism and; Trump and
Myanmar
Nairobi
Nasheed, Mohamed
National Academy of Sciences
National Geographic
nationalism
nationality
National Review
National Rifle Association (NRA)
National Science Foundation
nations
native peoples: in America; in Australia
Nature Climate Change
Nazis; neo-Nazis
NBC News
Nepal
Netherlands
net resource transfers (NRTs)
New Jersey; Hoboken
New Republic, The
New York, N.Y.; garbage scow in; Jackson Heights; Muslim center near Ground Zero in
New York State
New York Times, The
New York University (NYU); Abu Dhabi
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
9/11 terrorist attacks, see September 11 terrorist attacks
Nixon, Pat
Nobel Prizes
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Northern Triangle
Norway
Norwegian School of Economics