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Asylum

World

One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps

A celebrated Uyghur writer gives a first-person account of the genocide in Xinjiang.

Tahir Hamut Izgil The Atlantic Jul 2021 50min Permalink

Best Article History Health

Breakdown Palace

In late 1960s London, famed psychoanalyst R.D. Laing created a radical asylum—one with no doctors, no locks, and no limits.

Alex Mar Topic Apr 2019 50min Permalink

A Culture of No

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

World

City of Exiles

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

Politics World

The Refugee Dilemma

What America owes those it takes in.

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Rachel Aviv on the Longform Podcast

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Nov 2015 35min Permalink

World

Ten Borders

A Syrian refugee’s epic escape route through Europe.

Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker Oct 2015 35min Permalink

World

"You Have Thousands of Angels Around You"

A refugee survives the Rwandan genocide and finds a future in Atlanta.

Paige Williams Atlanta Magazine Oct 2007 40min Permalink

World

From Africa to Kent: Following in the Footsteps of Migrants

Tracing the steps of migrants from the Middle East and Africa to the Kent countryside.

Daniel Trilling New Statesman Dec 2014 20min Permalink

History World

How the Secret Police Tracked My Childhood

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