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""Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America."" –Publishers Weekly"[These contributions] touch on so many different facets of the immigrant experience that readers will find much to ponder... [and] experience how creative writing enriches our understanding of each other and our lives." –BooklistIntroduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh NguyenA unique collection of 41 groundbreaking essays, poems, and artwork by migrants, refugees and Dreamers—including award-winning writers, artists, and activists—that illuminate what it is like living undocumented today.In the overheated debate about immigration, we often lose sight of the humanity at the heart of this complex issue. The immigrants and refugees living precariously in the United States are mothers and fathers, children, neighbors, and friends. Individuals propelled by hope and fear, they gamble their lives on the promise of America, yet their voices are rarely heard.This anthology of essays, poetry, and art seeks to shift the immigration debate—now shaped by rancorous stereotypes and xenophobia—towards one rooted in humanity and justice. Through their storytelling and art, the contributors to this thought-provoking book remind us that they are human still. Transcending their current immigration status, they offer nuanced portraits of their existence before and after migration, the factors behind their choices, the pain of leaving their homeland and beginning anew in a strange country, and their collective hunger for a future not defined by borders.Created entirely by undocumented or formerly undocumented migrants, Somewhere We Are Human is a journey of memory and yearning from people newly arrived to America, those who have been here for decades, and those who have ultimately chosen to leave or were deported. Touching on themes of race, class, gender, nationality, sexuality, politics, and parenthood, Somewhere We Are Human reveals how joy, hope, mourning, and perseverance can take root in the toughest soil and bloom in the harshest conditions.

Con una introduccin del ganador del Premio Pulitzer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, En algn lugar somos humano es una antologa de cuarenta y cuatro ensayos y poemas atrevidos, importantes y revolucionarios escritos por inmigrantes, refugiados y Dreamers, incluidos escritores galardonados, artistas y activistas, que iluminan la realidad del da a da de un indocumentado.Hoy en da, existe un efusivo debate sobre el tema de la inmigracin en los Estados Unidos, pero se pierde de vista lo ms importante: que los migrantes y refugiados viviendo precariamente en este pas son madres y padres, hermanos y hermanas, hijos e hijas; individuos impulsados por la esperanza y el miedo que se juegan la vida con la promesa del sueo americano. Sus historias, sin embargo, caen a menudo en el olvido.En estos tiempos de inquietudes, agitacin poltica e incertidumbre, esta antologa de ensayos, poesa y arte intenta transformar la xenfoba y estereotipada perspectiva colectiva que tenemos sobre los inmigrantes y refugiados en una basada en la justicia y humanidad. Les autores de esta coleccin alterarn la visin que tienen de s mismes y de sus respectivas comunidades a travs de la narracin y el arte para as declarar orgullosamente que, tanto aqu como en cualquier otro lugar, todos somos humanos a pesar de la militarizacin de las fronteras, la detencin masiva y la legislacin draconiana y antiinmigrante en los Estados Unidos.En algn lugar somos humanosrevela cmo la alegra, la esperanza, el duelo y la perseverancia nos ayudan a florecer en los terrenos ms ridos y en las condiciones ms extremas.