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Citizenship

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Pakistan’s Biometric ID Scheme Is Stripping Citizenship from Thousands of People

Pakistan has received global praise for the design and maintenance of a vast system that holds the information of 98% of the country’s population. For some, however, it is making normal life impossible.

Alizeh Kohari Coda Story Nov 2021 35min Permalink

Politics

“The Best Kind of People”: Shifting Definitions of Citizenship and the Making of Arizona

For a century, Anglos from cold corners of the country have been lured here by the promise that this was a place where they could live among their own, in communities with nary a brown person in sight.

Fernanda Santos Guernica Feb 2019 20min Permalink

Politics

‘Will They Take Me, Too?’

What happens to American children when their parents are deported?

Brooke Jarvis New York Times Magazine Dec 2017 20min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Siege"

The violent history of a city.

Michael Beeman Juked Magazine Mar 2017 15min Permalink

World

The Bizarre Scheme to Transform a Remote Island into the New Dubai

What happens when an impoverished island nation enters into a deal to sell its own citizenship in bulk.

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian The Guardian Nov 2015 20min Permalink

World

Welcome to Maternity Hotel California

On the underground economy of full-service Southern California apartment complexes marketed to Chinese birth-tourists.

Benjamin Carlson Rolling Stone Aug 2015 30min Permalink