Böcker av Jose Antonio Vargas

"The movement of people--what Americans call 'immigration' and the rest of the world calls 'migration'--is among the defining issues of our time. Technology and information crosses countries and continents at blistering speed. Corporations thrive on being multinational and polyglot. Yet the world's estimated 244 million total migrant population, particularly those deemed 'illegal' by countries and societies, are locked in a chaotic and circular debate about borders and documents, assimilation and identity. An issue about movement seems immovable: politically, culturally and personally. Dear America: Notes Of An Undocumented Citizen is an urgent, provocative and deeply personal account from Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who happens to be the most well-known undocumented immigrant in the United States. Born in the Philippines and brought to the U.S. illegally as a 12-year-old, Vargas hid in plain-sight for years, writing for some of the most prestigious news organizations in the country (The Washington Post, The New Yorker) while lying about where he came from and how he got here. After publicly admitting his undocumented status--risking his career and personal safety--Vargas has challenged the definition of what it means to be an American, and has advocated for the human rights of immigrants and migrants during the largest global movement of people in modern history. Both a letter to America and a window into Vargas's America, this book is a transformative argument about migration and citizenship, and an intimate, searing exploration on what it means to be home when the country you call your home doesn't consider you one of its own"--

"Fascinante y valiente. Este libro de memorias debe ser lectura obligatoria para todos". ?Michelle Alexander, autora de The New Jim Crow, bestseller de The New York Times."Lloré leyendo este libro, comprendí plenamente lo que mis padres tuvieron que aguantar". ?Amy Tan, autora de Club de la Buena Estrella, bestseller de The New York Times?Este libro no puede ser más relevante y necesario.? ?Dave Eggers, autor de El CírculoPeriodista Jose Antonio Vargas, el ganador del Premio Pulitzer conocido como ?el inmigrante indocumentado más famoso de los Estados Unidos,? aborda una de las cuestiones que definen nuestro tiempo en esto libro explosiva y profundamente personal llamada a las armas.Natural de Filipinas, Vargas fue llevado ilegalmente a los Estados Unidos cuando tenía 12 años. Durante más de dos décadas, vivió oculto de todos, logrando escribir para algunos de las publicaciones más prestigiosas de EE. UU., como The Washington Post y The New Yorker. Pero en 2011, Vargas reveló públicamente su estatus de indocumentado, arriesgando su carrera y seguridad personal. Desde entonces, Vargas ha cuestionado la que significa de ser estadounidense y dedica su vida a dar voz a los inmigrantes y defender sus derechos, no solamente en EE. UU sino también en el mundo entero. Querida América: Notas de un ciudadano indocumentado no es un libro sobre la política de inmigración. Es una defensa íntima y apasionada de ciudadanía y el sentido de pertenencia.?Después de 25 años viviendo ilegalmente en un país que no me consideró uno de los suyos, este libro es lo más cercano a libertad que tengo.??Jose Antonio Vargas, Querida América

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER?This riveting, courageous memoir ought to be mandatory reading for every American.? ?Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow?l cried reading this book, realizing more fully what my parents endured.? ?Amy Tan, New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and Where the Past Begins?This book couldn't be more timely and more necessary.? ?Dave Eggers, New York Times bestselling author of What Is the What and The Monk of MokhaPulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called ?the most famous undocumented immigrant in America,? tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms.?This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book??at its core??is not about immigration at all. This book is about homelessness, not in a traditional sense, but in the unsettled, unmoored psychological state that undocumented immigrants like myself find ourselves in. This book is about lying and being forced to lie to get by; about passing as an American and as a contributing citizen; about families, keeping them together, and having to make new ones when you can't. This book is about constantly hiding from the government and, in the process, hiding from ourselves. This book is about what it means to not have a home.After 25 years of living illegally in a country that does not consider me one of its own, this book is the closest thing I have to freedom.??Jose Antonio Vargas, from Dear America