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    Honoring Immigrant and refugee experiences

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    We Are the Clarion: An Immigrant Manifesto by Ilan Stavans

    There is no America without outsiders. Call us pilgrims, slaves, refugees, exiles, immigrants, even tourists-we all, directly or indirectly, come from somewhere else. As a nation, the glue tying us together is the shared sense of destiny we nurture and the conviction that somehow this place is different, [...]

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