Sonia Guiñansaca

""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.

Una colecci n de 35 ensayos y poemas audaces, importantes e innovadores de inmigrantes, refugiados y so adores, incluidos escritores, artistas y activistas galardonados, que iluminan la experiencia de vivir sin documentos. Durante este tiempo de inestabilidad pol tica e incertidumbre, esta colecci n de ensayos, poes a y arte tiene como objetivo cambiar el imaginario colectivo de la naci n sobre los migrantes y refugiados hacia uno arraigado en la humanidad y la justicia. Los escritores de esta antolog a cambiar n la percepci n de s mismos y de sus comunidades a trav s de la narraci n y el arte, para declarar en voz alta y con orgullo que, aqu y en todas partes, son humanos a pesar de la militarizaci n fronteriza, la detenci n masiva y la legislaci n antiinmigrante draconiana. Aqu , hablan de su experiencia, no solo lidiando con su estado migratorio actual, sino en un reflejo matizado de su propia existencia antes de la migraci n y su hambre colectiva por un futuro sin fronteras. Estas historias llevar n al lector a un viaje a trav s de los recuerdos de la infancia, las an cdotas familiares y los sue os de reunirse con los padres del otro lado. Otras historias capturar n lo que a menudo no se discute, como el momento en que uno decide dejar los EE. UU. para buscar una nueva vida en otro lugar, despu s de d cadas de vivir como inmigrante indocumentado en los Estados Unidos, ser procesado en un centro de detenci n como transmigrante, y luto por patrias imaginadas. Algunas historias tendr n las complejidades en capas de ser negro y migrante, o reflejar n la angustia de envejecer fuera de DACA, pero todas las historias converger n en las intersecciones de raza, clase, g nero, nacionalidad, sexualidad, creencias pol ticas y derechos reproductivos. Como semillas de diente de le n, estas historias germinar n un sentido de urgencia, alegr a, esperanza, luto y perseverancia, echando ra ces en el suelo m s duro, demostrando lo que puede florecer a pesar de las condiciones adversas.