Citizens of Everywhere
Citizens of Everywhere In 1939, as war loomed, Peter Gumbel's Jewish-born grandparents fled Nazi Germany for England. How had it come to this?Drawing on one family's migration stories, Citizens of…
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Citizens of Everywhere
In 1939, as war loomed, Peter Gumbel's Jewish-born grandparents fled Nazi Germany for England. How had it come to this?Drawing on one family's migration stories, Citizens of Everywhere explores the nature of belonging amid cycles of pluralism and nationalism. But within a matter of decades, their grandson, appalled by the Brexit referendum, had become a citizen of the country they fled eighty years ago.
In Citizens of Everywhere, Gumbel grapples with this complexity through his own family history, revealing the personal costs of Britain's recent isolationist retreat. In an increasingly global world, nativist and diasporic impulses pull many people in contradictory directions that can be difficult to even understand. Along the way, he laments the decline of British pluralism at the worst possible moment--as the nation embarks on a once-in-a-generation struggle against