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This chapter reads post-9/11 children’s fiction such as Sita Brahmachari’s Tender Earth (2017) and Rachel Anderson’s Asylum (2011) as a counter-narrative to the voices of anti-immigrant rhetoric that reduce human beings to the status of objects and threats, as an expression of a common humanity that involves young readers in a recognition of its fundamental condition of precariousness, and as an opening up to globality that seeks to conceive of the cosmo-political solidarity required by anti-racism as an intergenerational and intercultural tackling of global imbalances of power. The chapter traces the way in which these writers credit their young protagonists with the capacity to mobilize such alliances, which are shaped by a rearticulated humanist ethics focused on the precariousness of all life and by principled opposition to the nationalist, racist, and rights-stripping thinking with which the popular language of immigration has been entangled. |
