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asylum-seekers

Posted inEditor's Pick

To Stay or To Go?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 28, 2020October 19, 2022

“Some immigrants have been withdrawing cases against their lawyers’ advice, saying they’re more afraid of being in detention during a coronavirus outbreak than of what might be waiting in the places they fled.”

Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Nonfiction, Podcasts, Writing

Trapped in Limbo Down Under

by Seyward Darby December 7, 2020October 19, 2022

In Australia, some 30,000 people live in a state of legal uncertainty crafted by politicians.

Posted inNonfiction

Motherhood on the Line

by Alice Driver December 2, 2020October 18, 2022

Three asylum seekers navigate coronavirus and climate change at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Posted inCurrent Events, investigations, Nonfiction, Story

Inside the Chaos of Immigration Court

by Gabriel Thompson September 22, 2020October 19, 2022

Gabriel Thompson takes us into San Francisco Immigration Court and the labyrinthine system that asylum seekers—and attorneys and judges—are up against.

Posted inNonfiction, Story

Finding True North

by Amy Bracken August 13, 2018October 19, 2022

Thousands of Haitians who fled the United States on foot last summer have started very different lives in Canada.

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