Crossing Borders: The Reconciliation of a Nation of Immigrants
Autor Ali Nooranien Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 mar 2022
Descoperim în Crossing Borders o resursă esențială pentru studenții în științe politice, cercetătorii fenomenelor sociale și practicienii din domeniul asistenței umanitare, care vor găsi aici o analiză nuanțată a mecanismelor migrației contemporane. Autorul Ali Noorani, o voce influentă în politici publice, depășește retorica polarizată pentru a documenta realitatea de la granița dintre SUA și Mexic.
Notăm cu interes structura narativă a cărții, care progresează de la cazuri individuale, precum cel al lui Carlos în primul capitol, spre analize sistemice ale fricii și demnității în capitolele mediane, culminând cu propuneri pentru unitate și încredere socială. Ali Noorani nu se limitează la teorie; el relatează direct din Honduras și Texas, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care organizațiile guvernamentale și cele non-profit interacționează cu fluxurile de migranți. Subliniem faptul că textul reușește să echilibreze rigoarea analizei cu empatia necesară înțelegerii unor decizii de viață sfâșietoare.
Această lucrare acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum Border of Death, Valley of Life de Daniel G. Groody, însă Crossing Borders adoptă o abordare mai centrată pe medierea între comunitățile conservatoare și migranți, spre deosebire de focalizarea teologică a lui Groody. De asemenea, dacă Somewhere We Are Human de Reyna Grande oferă o antologie de voci subiective ale migranților, volumul lui Noorani funcționează ca o cronică de teren ce integrează aceste voci într-un cadru de soluții politice și sociale concrete. Este o lectură care transformă statisticile de frontieră în profiluri umane recognoscibile, oferind contextul necesar pentru orice dezbatere informată despre viitorul națiunilor de imigranți.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 153814350X
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 1 map
Dimensiuni: 160 x 232 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield
Locul publicării:New York, United States
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care doresc să înțeleagă migrația dincolo de titlurile de știri. Ali Noorani oferă o perspectivă documentată asupra crizei de la graniță, fiind utilă atât celor din mediul academic, cât și publicului larg interesat de justiție socială. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a cauzelor migrației și a modalităților prin care comunitățile pot depăși prejudecățile pentru a integra noi veniți.
Descriere
In an era when immigration on a global scale defines the fears and aspirations of Americans, Crossing Borders presents the complexities of migration through the stories of families fleeing violence and poverty, the government and nongovernmental organizations helping or hindering their progress, and the American communities receiving them. Ali Noorani, who has spent years building bridges between immigrants and their often conservative communities, takes readers on a journey to Honduras, Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, and Texas, meeting migrants and the organizations and people that help them on both sides of the border. He reports from the inside on why families make the heart-wrenching decision to leave home. Going beyond the polemical, partisan debate, Noorani offers sensitive insights and real solutions. Crossing Borders will appeal to a broad audience of concerned citizens across the political spectrum, faith communities, policymakers, and immigrants themselves.
Cuprins
Preface
Chapter 1: Carlos
Chapter 2: Tough, Strong, Mean
Chapter 3: Their Dignity is Robbed
Chapter 4: Caught in the Middle
Chapter 5: Fear
Chapter 6: From Within
Chapter 7: The Path to Unity
Chapter 8: Confidence
Bibliography
Recenzii
A new book on immigration appeals to Americans' hearts. A book by Ali Noorani, president & CEO of the National Immigration Forum, uses stories, history and the unsettling present to convince Americans that enacting humane immigration reform would be in line with the best traditions of America.... Nearly everything Ali Noorani writes about in his new bookdescribes a place he visited personally, giving the book a journalistic sensibility and the benefit of a longtime observer's touch.
The anecdotes that may most pique the interest of Harvard Business Review readers appear in Crossing Borders by Ali Noorani. One details how the Idaho dairy industry, originally built by Dutch settlers, thrives today thanks to Latino workers and the yogurt company Chobani, founded by the Turkish-born Hamdi Ulukaya. As a result, dairy owners are partnering with the company and local labor groups to lobby for laws that will make it easier to gain legal entry to and citizenship in the United States. Noorani shows how a similar scenario played out in an Iowa pork-processing town and how immigrant medical and food workers carried the country and its businesses through the worst of the pandemic.
Perhaps no issue at this moment is so filled with passion and rage as immigration. I do not know of anyone alive more knowledgeable on the legal, moral, and cultural aspects of immigration than Ali Noorani. This book, a combination of memoir and analysis, frames how we arrived at this crisis, and how to go forward. The book never exchanges utopianism for realism nor does it ever exchange despair for hope. In this way, this book can help anyone to think through how to build coalitions, how to seek to persuade skeptics, and how to press on against daunting odds.
Immigration policy is complex and endlessly challenging on a good day. And the politics, always dicey, have become toxic. Fortunately for all of us, Ali Noorani has dedicated his life to bringing humanity and thoughtfulness to the issue. His moral clarity and searching intelligence are more important than ever. His is truly a voice we should all heed.
CROSSING BORDERS chronicles how politicians and pundits manipulate our fear of outsiders, encircling us in fear and blame, like coils of razor wire. But every so often, as Ali Noorani captures in vivid detail, there are mayors, police chiefs and business people who decline to be used in this way. Indispensable reading for anyone who wants to understand how Americans can reclaim our own basic decency.
In an era of symbolic politics, when borders have become the organizing principle for how we legitimize disputes, resolve our own questions of identity and even contrive a sense of meaning and purpose, Ali Noorani steps into their manifestation in the U.S. immigration debate and powerfully disentangles their hold. Crossing Borders is a moving portrait of a country confused and contorted by caricature, even as it invites fresh courage for all who feel and are displaced.
Ali Noorani knows immigration. Crossing Borders is authoritative and objective-passionate, yet surprisingly hopeful. This book is crucial to our understanding of American immigration and therefore of America.
Ali Noorani gently helps those of us who have been too blind or too busy to see what we have missed in our responsibilities to offer all people dignity, love our neighbor, and care for the stranger. He helps us see that the stories we've been told by our "community" about immigrants are grounded in fear, not fact; hate, not love. And he gives us hope through examples of unlikely alliances among by small groups of people with the courage to step outside of their community's norms and offer dignity to fellow human beings.