I haven't read the whole book, pictured above, just Chapter 6. I got a copy of that chapter from COPA (Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action). COPA describes itself as "a Broad Based Organizing Group made up of (and owned by) 23 Member institutions across Monterey Bay, from as far south as Greenfield to as far North as Santa Cruz. These Member institutions are congregations, schools, and unions who have come together ... to act on behalf of families."
What Kolker says, in her very persuasive report on her visit to Chicago's "Little Village" neighborhood, is that immigrants bring an approach to community that maximizes mutual support, and that provides a model that non-immigrant communities should seek to emulate.
Neighborhoods that provide mutual support for all the residents who live there? What a great idea! How about this? Let's find a way to incorporate immigrants who have come to the United States into our society, instead of rounding them up like criminals and putting them in concentration camps.
What do you think?
Image Credit:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Immigrant-Advantage/Claudia-Kolker/9781416586838
It's people who draw lines on maps and divide up the earth into pieces. Those also decide who can step over the arbitrary boundaries they've established. Looking down upon the earth is to know for certain that divisions are imaginary. It has only been for about 5000 years that anyone on earth had the vaguest concept of nations or countries. It's a dubious construct.
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