Becoming America: A Personal History of A Nation’s Immigration Wars (Nonfiction), Washington, D.C.
Becoming America, A Personal History of A Nation’s Immigration Wars tells the expansive tale of a nation’s struggle with immigration through the lens of one family.
“My hope is for readers to reconnect with their or their loved ones’ immigrant roots and to shape the discussion around who we need to become as a country.”
Marielena Hincapié is a social justice leader currently working on Becoming America, A Personal History of A Nation’s Immigration Wars a narrative nonfiction book that recounts America’s immigration history through the diverse tapestry of her extended family, which mirrors the mosaic of modern U.S. immigration. She is a Distinguished Immigration Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Cornell Law School’s Immigration Law and Policy Program, and the former Executive Director of the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) and NILC’s Immigrant Justice Fund. She graduated from Northeastern University School of Law. She was born in Medellin, Colombia, and is the youngest of 10 children.
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