Stories about Migration & Immigration from October, 2016
A Day in the Life of Immigration Limbo in the US
A mother who escaped gang violence with her children in El Salvador waits in Boston to know whether she and her family can stay in the US legally or not.
Meet a ‘Dreamer’ in the US Who Started His Own Company to Get Out the Vote
As an undocumented teenager, Antonio Valdovinos couldn’t become a US Marine. He went on to start a civic engagement organization instead.
The U.S.'s Deportation of Haitians Shows That Asylum Applicants Are Far From Equal Under the Law
"Events like the 2010 earthquake should be basis for humanitarian asylum. Does sending people back to a country without a working infrastructure and facing famine and disease constitute justice?"
A Businessman Missed the Tastes of Ethiopia—So He Starting Growing Them for Himself
"Different opportunities are provided by the two different places. I think more people should have two different countries. More than one, anyway!”
Whose Face Should Appear on Tajikistan's Banknotes?
The president's face, or the face of a humble migrant?
50 Years Later, Protesters in Texas Reenact a Farmworker Strike That Is Scarcely Mentioned in History Books
“People don’t leave their own stories, people don’t leave letters, or diaries, or other types of autobiographies or personal stories.”
