NEITHER HERE NOR THERE, Reflections of a First Generation Immigrant
By Frans H. Jager.
SUMMARY
A first generation immigrant comes to the United States with
an expectation that he is making a good deal. That by coming to the USA he will
shape a better future for himself and his family than he could expect to have
by staying put. But we are living in a fast moving age where circumstances
change frequently and fundamentally.
The purpose of NEITHER HERE NOR THERE is to give an honest
account of one personal journey from the old country (the Netherlands) to America.
It looks back at how the author perceived the choice he had to make and how he
perceived the future for America versus the Netherlands. It looks back at the
conditions under which the author grew up in post war Europe and it compares
the expectations he had of a future in America with how it turned out. In the
process, the book aims to contribute to an urgently needed discourse on what is
going right and wrong in America and what might be done to make good on the
quest for American Exceptionalism.
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