Tag: Immigration

“What was the whole point of your training if you cannot do something, even in a pandemic?”

Whether adding a hyphen or changing one’s name completely, the process of naming can be complex.

The writer describes her process of reporting and shaping her recent essay, “The State of Waiting,” which explores love in the shadow of war and immigration policy.

Separated by war, boundaries, and immigration policies they cannot control, one young Yemeni couple refuses to give up on love.

“The men call up to Sofiane, telling him that he and his brother have to jump. Guelord shouts that the younger boy needs to go first. Sofiane should throw him down.”

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

A hidden diary, a love story, and a mystery.

“A young guy has received admission into two American universities, but still gets rejected. One boy from my queue is given the visa. His smile is so luminous it is like he’s going straight to heaven. “

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

When your name is Osama and you’re living in post-9/11 America, you always know The Question is coming.

In her quest to become truly American, Jakki Kerubo discovers what it means to belong in a place.

Naz Riahi recalls her vibrant childhood in a suburb of Tehran, and considers how the harsh realities imposed by the still new Islamic Republic seeped into her family’s life.

California native Katya Cengel contemplates whether living in Ukraine prepared her for life in the South.

Anjoli Roy struggles to understand the conservative father she dearly loves.

In recent novels, Ocean Vuong and Nicole Dennis-Benn tell stories in which young queer characters affected by migration and displacement are worthy of seeing themselves reflected in others.

Dina Nayeri’s patience is tried as she accompanies an immigrant family into a bureaucratic nightmare.

Wars and heightened border security have created a humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean.

Yifat Susskind stands at three of the world’s most militarized borders and reflects on what is revealed about these zones of separation and violence when we see them from the perspective of mothers.

Madhushree Ghosh continues to honor her late parents’ memory…through the simple act of making fish curry.

Grace Loh Prasad realizes that mourning is complicated when home and homeland aren’t the same place.

In the wake of having his writing career belittled, Jackson Bliss becomes an interpreter for a refugee and comes to see words, translations, and storytelling as important acts of resistance.

“We, as family, got so much from their trash. I never wanted to forget that I was the janitor’s kid before I was anything else.”

My on-again, off-again love affair with Engelbert Humperdinck.

Italy’s “Salvini Decree,” passed last November, has already altered life for many migrants to the country.

Gabriela Garcia’s short story about a women fighting a cold war with her new neighbor is deeply political without explicitly being about politics at all.

As a result of Trump-era immigration policies, fewer highly skilled and educated legal immigrants — like 26-year-old Akirt Sridharan from India — are being hired by U.S. companies, despite their qualifications.

Guy Gunaratne’s Man Booker-longlisted “In Our Mad and Furious City” recognizes multiple, overlapping versions of London and its inhabitants, examining the ways violence can bubble up through the city’s fissures.

When Naz Riahi was 9, she escaped tragedy in Iran only to be confronted by a cruel new world in America. Food became her solace and her tool for assimilating.

The Mexican teenager who became one Mexican-American family’s maid taught a young woman that el oltro lado, the other side, is as much about class and good fortune as it is an international border.

In two recent books about immigrant families seeking asylum in the U.S., the authors’ attempts to help become part of their subjects’ stories.