{"product_id":"this-land-is-our-land-hb","title":"This Land Is Our Land : An Immigrant’s Manifesto - Hardback","description":"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMaximum City.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawing on his family’s own experience emigrating from India to Britain and America, and years of reporting around the world, Suketu Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering scrutiny. The West, he argues, is being destroyed not by immigrants but by the fear of immigrants. He juxtaposes the phony narratives of populist ideologues with the ordinary heroism of labourers, nannies and others, from Dubai to New York, and explains why more people are on the move today than ever before. As civil strife and climate change reshape large parts of the planet, it is little surprise that borders have become so porous.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis Land is Our Land\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ealso stresses the destructive legacies of colonialism and global inequality on large swathes of the world. When today’s immigrants are asked, ‘Why are you here?’, they can justly respond, ‘We are here because you were there.’ And now that they are here, as Mehta demonstrates, immigrants bring great benefits, enabling countries and communities to flourish.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eImpassioned, rigorous, and richly stocked with memorable stories and characters, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis Land Is Our Land\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a timely and necessary intervention, and literary polemic of the highest order.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32179361120322,"sku":"","price":599.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/products\/9781787331426.jpg?v=1628327049","url":"https:\/\/koolskoolbookstore.com\/products\/this-land-is-our-land-hb","provider":"KoolSkool The Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}