POSTED BY MARTIN KICH
The PEN list is available at: https://pen.org/diaspora-migration-reading-list/?utm.
If you click on the book image, you will be linked to a review in a major newspaper or periodical.
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Thanks for sharing PEN’s list. The circumstances of migrants need to be better understood. I would add one further suggestion, a very old book that is to my mind one of the most scathing indictments of immigration bureaucracy ever written: The Death Ship, by B. Traven. Traven, best known as author of Treasure of the Sierra Madre, held immigration bureaucrats to be fundamentally immoral by the nature of their work, willfully engaged in determinations of life and death, privilege and want as an act of state. His critique brings to mind Hannah Arendt’s observations concerning the banality of evil. I highly recommend it as a corrective to the view that state-based exclusion and life-boat ethics has a solid moral foundation.
Steve Mumme