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This Land Is Our Land

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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
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  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

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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

 

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