One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps
A celebrated Uyghur writer gives a first-person account of the genocide in Xinjiang.
A celebrated Uyghur writer gives a first-person account of the genocide in Xinjiang.
Tahir Hamut Izgil The Atlantic Jul 2021 50min Permalink
In late 1960s London, famed psychoanalyst R.D. Laing created a radical asylum—one with no doctors, no locks, and no limits.
How one immigration court in Texas has shut the door on those seeking refuge in America.
Justine van der Leun Virginia Quarterly Review Oct 2018 50min Permalink
Every month, thousands of deportees from the United States and hundreds of asylum-seekers from around the world arrive in Tijuana. Many never leave.
Daniel Duane California Sunday May 2018 25min Permalink
What America owes those it takes in.
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Nov 2015 35min Permalink
A Syrian refugee’s epic escape route through Europe.
Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker Oct 2015 35min Permalink
A refugee survives the Rwandan genocide and finds a future in Atlanta.
Paige Williams Atlanta Magazine Oct 2007 40min Permalink
Tracing the steps of migrants from the Middle East and Africa to the Kent countryside.
Daniel Trilling New Statesman Dec 2014 20min Permalink
The author relives her Romanian youth and the imprisonment of her father through the Securitate files kept on her family.
Carmen Bugan BBC Apr 2014 15min Permalink