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Migrants

The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe

Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias.

Ian Urbina New Yorker Nov 2021 35min Permalink

World

“When can we really rest?”

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

Politics World

A Translation Crisis at the Border

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

Crime World

The Rescue

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

Politics

Inside the Deportation Courts

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

Travel

1,600 Miles, 85 Hours

A migrant family takes a Greyhound across America.

Miriam Jordan New York Times May 2019 10min Permalink

World

Secret Spectacles

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

Health

Unclaimed

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

World

Hungry Venezuelans Flee in Boats to Escape Economic Collapse

In the last year alone, over 150,000 people have risked their lives to leave.

Nicholas Casey New York Times Nov 2016 15min Permalink

Business

The Forgotten Village

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

Graves of Shame

An investigation into the mass graves in Texas that contain the remains of migrants.

John Carlos Frey Texas Observer Jul 2015 25min Permalink

Business Crime World

Mastermind

Tracing Europe’s migrant crisis to organized crime.

Alex Perry, Connie Agius Newsweek Europe Jun 2015 25min Permalink

Business

Sugar Days

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

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