IMMIGRANT SONGS
Jun 18, 2021
3 minutes
By Natasha Walter
I came to The Undocumented Americans thinking I already knew how it would read. There have been a number of books in recent years about people who cross borders without official permission – the refugees and the migrants, the desperate and the brave.
Such reports bear a peculiar burden. They have to encompass extraordinary trauma and everyday humanity to wake us up to the violence inflicted on those who are not citizens, and to reassure us of our shared humanity. Laudable as these
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