The book of the anthropologist - journalist : Carmen Molina Tamacas SalviYorkers

Abstract

This document , which arrives at a very particular time, has been recently written at a time when Hispanics in the United States are a minority that is not yet enough to elect, for example, a president. In 2019, one in six Americans is Hispanic. Pew Hispanic calculations indicate that there will soon be a new demographic map of the country. The demographic power of Hispanics will be decisive in the elections to take place in the coming decades. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has managed to legitimize the most racist discourse in recent years. This is the time when the White House publishes a text entitled “What You Need to Know about the Violent Animals of MS-13.” It is the time of the wall being built, of the new concentration camps to isolate the migrants who arrive from the shithole countries, the time of the threats to those useless rulers to stop the caravans; it is the time of masses of people who dream; it is the time of separated families. But it is also the time of hope, of reorganization, of #HomeIsHere, of #NeverAgainIsNow, of #HereToStay, of #AllWeAreImmigrants, of #SaveTPS, and of #Journey4Justice. Hope is out there, and acccording to Walter Benjamin, it is that hope which is only given to us by the hopeless. This is, therefore, a book about undocumented migrants, their struggles and their ability to build life projects above and beyond the possibilities they are given.

Key words: Immigrants – Comments, Foreign workers, Immigrants – New York (United States) – Social conditions, El Salvador – Emigration and immigration – Social aspects

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11298/1221

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5377/koot.v1i13.14799