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The Dispossessed
John Washington
其他書名
A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond
出版
Verso Books
, 2020-04-28
主題
Social Science / Emigration & Immigration
History / Latin America / Central America
Political Science / Human Rights
Literary Collections / General
ISBN
1788734742
9781788734745
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0XDnDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Arnovis couldn't stay in El Salvador. If he didn't leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning, that he would wake up with flies in his mouth. "It was like a bomb exploded in my life," Arnovis said.
The Dispossessed
tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old Salvadoran man, Arnovis, whose family's search for safety shows how the United States - in concert with other Western nations - has gutted asylum protections for the world's most vulnerable. Crisscrossing the border and Central America, John Washington traces one man's quest for asylum. Arnovis is separated from his daughter by US Border Patrol agents and struggles to find security after being repeatedly deported to a gang-ruled community in El Salvador, traumatic experiences relayed by Washington with vivid intensity.
Adding historical, literary, and current political context to the discussion of migration today, Washington tells the history of asylum law and practice through ages to the present day. Packed with information and reflection,
The Dispossessed
is more than a human portrait of those who cross borders - it is an urgent and persuasive case for sharing the country we call home.