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More migrants than ever are crossing the Colombia-Panama border to reach the U.S. Five days inside the Darién Gap, one of the most dangerous journeys in the world.
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More migrants than ever are crossing the Colombia-Panama border to reach the U.S. Five days inside the Darién Gap, one of the most dangerous journeys in the world.
Nadja Drost California Sunday Apr 2020 30min Permalink
For migrants who speak Mayan languages, a grassroots group of interpreters is often their only hope for receiving asylum.
Rachel Nolan New Yorker Dec 2019 20min Permalink
An oil tanker was ordered to save more than 100 migrants floating in the middle of the Mediterranean. Europe didn’t want them. They couldn’t go back to Libya. How would they survive?
Zach Campbell The Atavist Magazine Oct 2019 30min Permalink
Another inmate was unable to complete his application, and assented to voluntary departure, in which an immigrant agrees to leave the country at his or her own expense. “You’ll be on your way back to Mexico today,” said the judge.
Madeleine Schwartz New York Review of Books Sep 2019 20min Permalink
A migrant family takes a Greyhound across America.
Miriam Jordan New York Times May 2019 10min Permalink
The story of a young man from rural Ghana who bought a pair of secret camera glasses and got himself smuggled across the Sahara, to film crime and exploitation along the way.
Joel Gunter BBC May 2019 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
In the last year alone, over 150,000 people have risked their lives to leave.
Nicholas Casey New York Times Nov 2016 15min Permalink
Revisiting California’s grape vines more than 70 years after the publication of The Grapes of Wrath.
Gabriel Thompson Virginia Quarterly Review Jul 2015 20min Permalink
An investigation into the mass graves in Texas that contain the remains of migrants.
John Carlos Frey Texas Observer Jul 2015 25min Permalink
Tracing Europe’s migrant crisis to organized crime.
Alex Perry, Connie Agius Newsweek Europe Jun 2015 25min Permalink
The sugar beet harvest in North Dakota draws a modern version of the American hobo.
Sierra Crane-Murdoch Virginia Quarterly Review Apr 2015 20min Permalink
Tracing the steps of migrants from the Middle East and Africa to the Kent countryside.
Daniel Trilling New Statesman Dec 2014 20min Permalink