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Si stanno muovendo a decine, a centinaia, a migliaia: caricano tutto ciò che hanno sulla macchina e si trasferiscono per sempre in cima a un monte, in mezzo a una vallata, al margine di un bosco, in un borgo solitario. Alle spalle si lasciano le grandi città con le loro mille luci e i loro mille rumori, le strade congestionate da un traffico senza inizio né fine, l’aria condizionata degli uffici, gli avocado toast, i miniappartamenti dai prezzi insostenibili. è il grande ritorno collettivo verso la terra; e sta avvenendo proprio qui, ogni giorno, sotto i nostri occhi.

Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and humanitarian challenges seen today. Yet, as Maria Cristina Garcia observes in this critical history of U.S. policy on migration in the Global South, there is actually no such thing as a "climate refugee" under current U.S. law. Most initiatives intended to assist those who must migrate are flawed and ineffective from inception because they are derived from outmoded policies. In a world of climate change, U.S. refugee policy simply does not work.

From Europe to the United States, opportunistic politicians have exploited the economic crisis, terrorist attacks, and an unprecedented influx of refugees to bring hateful and reactionary views from the margins of political discourse into the mainstream. They have won the votes of workers, women, gays, and Jews; turned openly xenophobic ideas into state policy; and pulled besieged centrist parties to the right. How did we get here?

In The Snakehead, Patrick Radden Keefe reveals the inner workings of Cheng Chui Ping aka Sister Ping’s complex empire and recounts the decade-long FBI investigation that eventually brought her down. He follows an often incompetent and sometimes corrupt INS as it pursues desperate immigrants risking everything to come to America, and along the way he paints a stunning portrait of a generation of undocumented immigrants and the intricate underground economy that sustains and exploits them.