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Immigrant

Best Article

The Lost Boys of Galveston, Texas

Young immigrants who have been separated from their parents find a home at the Children’s Center.

Jessica Weisberg New Yorker May 2019 25min Permalink

Business Crime

The War Inside 7-Eleven

The company has been battling its store owners for years, using tactics that include planting hidden cameras and and tailing franchisees in unmarked vehicles. It seems to have found a new tool: U.S. immigration authorities.

Lauren Etter, Michael Smith Businessweek Nov 2018 15min Permalink

World

Israel’s Invisible Filipino Work Force

To support their families back home, women from the Philippines have found work and a new way of life in Israel. But at what price?

Ruth Margalit New York Times Magazine May 2017 20min Permalink

World

The Useful Village

In the fall of 2015, Germany designated Sumte, population 102, as a sanctuary for nearly 800 refugees. What followed was a living experiment in the country’s principles.

Ben Mauk Virginia Quarterly Review Apr 2017 45min Permalink

Crime

The Case of Oswaldo Martinez

Deaf, mute and undocumented, he was charged 12 years ago with a capital crime and has been in legal limbo ever since.

Paul Duggan Washington Post Mar 2017 20min Permalink

Food

The Secret Cost of Chinese Buffets

Undercover at a placement agency and then at a Georgia Chinese restaurant and its employee dorm.

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Amelia Pang Truthdig Nov 2016 20min Permalink

Crime

That Other School Shooting

On former nursing student One L. Goh, who killed six people at Oikos University in Oakland, California, and what it means to the Korean immigrant community.

Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine Mar 2013 20min Permalink

World

The Dark Side of Dubai

Seized passports, debtor’s prison, and slave labor prop up a Disneyland in the desert now in decline.

Johann Hari The Independent Apr 2009 35min Permalink

A Patel Motel Cartel?

How Indians with the surname Patel came to own 1/3 of the motels in America.

Tunku Varadarajan New York Times Jul 1999 15min Permalink