Literary Nonfiction. PEOPLE THAT DON'T EXIST ARE CITIZENS OF A MADE UP COUNTRY is an exploration of family emigration in the context of global migration. It seeks to display the increasingly universal reality of displacement as a lived experience. In a sequence of interlinked chapter essays migrant reality is married to one family's history."In this vital new work from Joe Horgan, the Irish emigrant experience is examined against the backdrop of continued global movement of migrants. In these compassionate, multilayered essays, Horgan demolishes stereotypes of 'them' and 'us,' provoking the reader to discover their own empathy in the face of ignorance and fear. This is a book that manages that rare feat of proving both edifying and thoroughly enjoyable."—Jessica Traynor