The Making of a Mexican-American Dream
On the vexed territory between aquí and allá.
On the vexed territory between aquí and allá.
Sarah Menkedick Pacific Standard Mar 2017 25min Permalink
One story of coming to America from the Soviet Union.
Julia Ioffe The Atlantic Jan 2017 Permalink
One refugee’s escape from Syria.
Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker Oct 2015 25min Permalink
On a mysterious migrant in a San Diego hospital bed, and the thousands of families who hope that he’s theirs.
Brooke Jarvis California Sunday Dec 2016 Permalink
Mary Kuanen escaped the violence of Sudan only to live through her husband’s murder in suburban Denver. This is her life today.
Robert Sanchez 5280 Dec 2016 Permalink
On Logan County, West Virginia.
Larissa MacFarquhar New Yorker Sep 2016 30min Permalink
For decades, “trimmigrants” have flooded California’s Emerald Triangle during harvest season in search of highly paid seasonal work. In the isolation of the dense forest, sexual assault is commonplace and rarely investigated.
Shoshana Walter Reveal Sep 2016 35min Permalink
A decade in the life of America’s wiliest coyote.
Kathy Dobie GQ Sep 2016 20min Permalink
On the Italian island Lampedusa— “politically Europe, but geographically Africa”—as a wave of African immigrants is due to arrive from Libya by boat, ruining the tourist season.
Eliza Griswold Poetry Jan 2012 20min Permalink
How a sexual assault case in Idaho involving refugee children morphed into an anti-refugee frenzy.
Michelle Goldberg Slate Jul 2016 20min Permalink
The Darién Gap is a lawless wilderness on the border of Colombia and Panama teeming with everything from deadly snakes to antigovernment guerrillas. For many migrants, crossing it is their only way to get to America.
Jason Motlagh Outside Jul 2016 40min Permalink
A political history of Britain.
“On the day after the referendum, many Britons woke up with the feeling – some for better, some for worse – that they were suddenly living in a different country. But it is not a different country: what brought us here has been brewing for a very long time.”
Gary Younge The Guardian Jun 2016 20min Permalink
The hot dog black market and the immigrants it exploits.
Jeff Koyen Crain's Jun 2016 15min Permalink
Behind a Muslim community in northern Wyoming — and 20 percent of all Muslims in the state — lies one very enterprising man.
Kathryn Schulz New Yorker May 2016 30min Permalink
In bleak farmlands of East Anglia, the first wave of Eastern European migrants learned exploitation and extortion from their own experiences with day labor. Then they began to prey on fellow immigrants, luring in them into debt and then forcing them to commit crimes to pay it off.
Felicity Lawrence The Guardian May 2016 25min Permalink
Of the 4.5 million Syrians who have fled their nation’s bloody civil war, fewer than 3,000 have made it to America. This is one family’s story.
Matthew Shaer Atlanta Magazine May 2016 20min Permalink
Immigrant nannies leave their own children behind to care for others’.
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Apr 2016 30min Permalink
Why China’s super-rich send their children west.
Jiayang Fan New Yorker Feb 2016 20min Permalink
There is a little-known network of 11 federal prisons in America called Criminal Alien Requirement facilities. They exclusively house men who lack U.S. citizenship and have been convicted of crimes. They are all run privately. And over the last 18 years, they have allowed scores of inmates to die from diseases that could have been treated.
Seth Freed Wessler The Nation Jan 2016 Permalink
For immigrants from Muslim-majority countries, applications for visas, asylum, green cards, and naturalization can take decades. Unless you’re willing to be an informant for the FBI.
Talal Ansari, Siraj Datoo Buzzfeed Jan 2016 15min Permalink
Kelvin Villanueva had lived in America for 15 years. He had four kids. He had a job. Then he was stopped for a broken taillight.
Luke Mogelson New York Times Magazine Dec 2015 25min Permalink
What America owes those it takes in.
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Nov 2015 35min Permalink
A refugee’s odyssey from Syria to Sweden.
Patrick Kingsley The Guardian Jun 2015 Permalink
A Nepali immigrant tries to survive, and support a family back home, on a cab driver’s wages in Qatar.
An orphan named Patience and an argument for open immigration.
Stephan Faris Deca Jul 2014 40min Permalink