Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

New Yorker journalist Jonathan Blitzer has been covering the immigration crisis at America''s southern border since it began, but the current emergency is the end of a much larger story. In this, his first book, Blitzer goes back to the beginning, to the shadowy civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1980s; to the American prison system in the 1990s, where petty street criminals learned how to organize themselves into international crime syndicates; to Honduras''s brutal crackdown on crime in the 2000s and the emergence of Salvadorean gangs across the United States. And then the Trump era, in which immigration became a vector of resurgent populism, with mass internments the order of the day. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here is a fresh and full account of America''s immigration problems, but it is much more than that. It is an odyssey of struggle and resilience, telling the epic story of people whose lives ebb and flow across the border and those who help and hinder them. It is a gripping and persuasive attempt to answer not only the question of how America got there, but the vital question of who we are and who we want to be in our liberal Western democracies, whether we are incarcerating children on our southern borders or watching them drown on the shores of the Mediterranean.

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Urgent, extraordinary . . . a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Blitzer, Blitzer Jonathan
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2024
• EAN: 9781529039320
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-3932-0
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 45 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, El Salvador, Nationalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, TRUE CRIME / Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Political ideologies and movements, Corruption in politics, government and society, Political activism / Political engagement