Tag: El Salvador

A trans activist from El Salvador who has helped countless trans migrant women fight for asylum in the U.S. finds asylum for herself.

“Cree First Nations believe ‘the northern lights are dancing spirits of loved ones who have passed on.’”

“Tell them on the outside,” Carolyn Forché’s Salvadoran mentor instructed her. Her memoir is her latest attempt. Its elliptical lyricism, like that of her poetry, runs circles around censorship.

“For now, though, he has no plans to become a baker again.”

Danny Gold investigates the movement converting El Salvador’s gang members into born-again Christians.

How do you retire from a gang?

Las mujeres trans migran para escapar de la violencia y mantenerse con vida. Alice Driver acompañó a una de estas mujeres en su viaje.

Trans women migrate to escape violence and stay alive. Alice Driver accompanied one of these women on her journey.

The U.S. immigration system is ill-equipped to deal with refugees who are feeling real violence and hardship but who don’t qualify for asylum.

One California woman tries to understand the code of honor that young men live by in blood feuds.

As US immigration policy has focused on deporting the greatest possible number of undocumented migrants, no matter what their situation, a great many Salvadoran deportees, some of whom grew up in the United States and hardly speak Spanish, have found themselves back in their country of birth. A number of these unwilling returnees are mareros, […]