Esta tierra es nuestra tierra

More than ever before, much of the global population is forced to leave their home and emigrate. Suketu Mehta is among the millions of people who have been forced to live in a country where they were not born, and This Land is Our Land is his urgent defense of global immigration. A manifesto in favor of empathy in which he exposes that the West is not being destroyed by the arrival of immigrants from impoverished areas, but by fear of immigration. Mehta contrasts the hypocritical narratives of populist ideologies with the daily heroism of workers who emigrate from Latin America or the Maghreb to the West in search of an improvement in their living conditions. From the experience of her own family, who had to leave India to move first to the United Kingdom and then to the United States, Mehta puts the rejection of immigration to relentless scrutiny and explores the destructive legacies of colonialism and inequality that plague a nation great part of the planet's inhabitants.