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An Immigrant's Manifesto: Suketu Mehta's New Book

Haitian migrants jump the wall of the Mesoamericana fairgrounds to look for food, in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, Wednesday, May 29, 2019.

Suketu Mehta, associate professor of journalism at NYU and the author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found and This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), speaks out for migrants here and globally.

EVENT: You can see Suketa Mehta in discussion with Nancy Foner at the American Jewish Historical Society on Thursday, June 6 at 7pm. General Admission is $10 general, $5 students/members/seniors, and $12 at the door. Tickets available here.