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As a child, Stephan Faris almost failed to qualify for any country's passport. Now, in a story that goes from South Africa to Italy to the United States, he looks at the arbitrariness of nationality. Framed by Faris's meeting with a orphan as a reporter in Liberia and their reencounter years later in Minnesota, Homelands makes the case for an entire rethinking of immigration insurance plan. In a world where we've globalized capital, culture, and marketing communications, are constraints on the movement of individuals still morally tenable? At the same time when the immigration question dominates the headlines, Homelands practices in the custom of George Orwell's "Marrakech" and, more recently, Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations in The Atlantic. Drawing on greater than a decade of international reporting for newspapers such as Time, Bloomberg Businessweek, and The Atlantic, Faris takes listeners over a 10-year journey across the borders separating warfare from serenity in Liberia, opportunity from deprivation in Kenya, and security from devastation today in the fatal waters off Lampedusa - an Italian trip island that has become the scene of the refugee crisis. Along the way, he uncovers some unsettling but in the end redeeming parallels between modern immigration procedures and the insurance policies of South Africa's apartheid regime. Could we genuinely have a world without borders? What would that look like? Based on dozens of interviews with philosophers and diplomats, help staff and small-town mayors, and a cabinet member of South Africa's previous apartheid federal government, Faris's work of fearless frontline journalism also functions as a kind of futurism. Confronting questions inflaming borders in California and Texas, France and Greece, and Morocco and Spain, he takes us into the depths of 1 of the modern world's most complex moral dilemmas - and results with an answer.
