The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond
John Washington
Jun 2024 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Zac Aleman
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Arnovis couldn't stay in El Salvador. If he didn't leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning-that he would wake up with flies in his mouth. "It was like a bomb exploded in my life," Arnovis said. The Dispossessed tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old Salvadoran man, Arnovis, whose family's search for safety shows how the United States-in concert with other Western nations-has gutted asylum protections for the world's most vulnerable. Crisscrossing the border and Central America, John Washington traces one man's quest for asylum. Arnovis is separated from his daughter by US Border Patrol agents and struggles to find security after being repeatedly deported to a gang-ruled community in El Salvador, traumatic experiences relayed by Washington with vivid intensity. Adding historical, literary, and current political context to the discussion of migration today, Washington tells the history of asylum law and practice through ages to the present day. Packed with information and reflection, The Dispossessed is more than a human portrait of those who cross borders-it is an urgent and persuasive case for sharing the country we call home.
About the author
John Washington is a writer, translator, and activist. A regular contributor to The Nation magazine and The Intercept, he writes about immigration and border politics, as well as criminal justice, photography, and literature.
Zac Aleman is a narrator from Jacksonville, Florida. He speaks English and Spanish natively and has a great ear for dialects and accents. When he's not narrating in his professional home studio, you can find him spending time with his family or relaxing with an audiobook.
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