ZOHRAN Mamdani's election as Mayor of New York City (NYC) has evoked worldwide responses, ranging from idealistic expectations of radical reforms for "affordability" to fearmongering about his supposed "communist" and "jihadist" goals. To what extent he will be successful as the Mayor in fulfilling his mandate of economic fairness and social justice only time will tell. Central to his speech, however, was his evocation of the lives and identities of immigrants, mostly people from the Global South, in NYC and other American cities.

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