Everyone who is gone is here : the United States, Central America, and making of a crisis /

Blitzer, Jonathan

Everyone who is gone is here : the United States, Central America, and making of a crisis / Jonathan Blitzer. - xi, 523 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-506) and index.

Contenidos: Introduction
Part 1:

The Heart Doctor

The True Identity of the People of God

The General and His Boots

Spanish for Vietnam

Something Immigrant and Hungry

Pro Bono Coyotes

We Can’t Stop, but Do We Have Any Other Choice?

They Don’t Even Let You f‑‑‑ in Peace

The Guatemalan Solution

The Red Bishop

Living as Long as the Republic Does

Smugglers with a Conscience

Stepsister of the Government

The Heart Doctor Speaks

A Park Called Pain

Sanctuary Goes to Trial

Nothing More Permanent Than a Temporary Immigrant

The Doctor and the General

Part 2:
19. Half Anthropologist, Half Wannabe Hood
20. Gang Wars
21. La Clínica del Pueblo
22. Hispanics vs. Blacks vs. Whites
23. War Zones
24. Operation Blockade
25. Above the Rest
26. The Third Rail of American Politics
27. Fast Eddie
28. The Sisters
29. The Trial
30. Homieland
31. The Reformers

Part 3:
32. The Voice of God
33. Deporter in Chief
34. Border Emergency
35. Memory Card
36. Trump
37. Killing Fields
38. Los Nerds
39. La Pastora
40. Stay at Your Own Risk
41. Do I Have to Come Here Injured or Dead?
42. The Highlands at the Border
43. We Need Concrete Information
44. The Caravan
45. Solidarity 2000
46. Remain in Mexico
47. Rewriting Asylum

Part 4:
48. The Heart Doctor
49. The Wuhan of the Americas
50. Eddie and Juan
51. Keldy
52. Lucrecia
53. Simply Not Who We Are
54. Home

Epilogue / Back Matter:

Acknowledgments

Note on Sources

Bibliography (pp. 473–506)

Index

"An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border that tells the story of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policy makers determining their fate"--

9781984880802 9781984880826

2023023980


Immigrants--Central America.
Immigrants--United States.


United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
Central America--Emigration and immigration.

JV6483 / .B649e 2024

305.9/0691209728