Tag: Immigration

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.

Siddhartha Mahanta looks back at the small suburban starter house in Texas that helped his immigrant father redefine “home.”

And how many times can you start your life all over again from zero? If there’s anyone who knows the answer, it’s Claudia Amaro.

My Soviet husband said we’d need 24-hour day care for any children we might have. Many years and the fall of an empire later, I finally realized why he said it.

Sharmila Sen grew up understanding distinctions between castes and religions, between the educated and the illiterate. Race was a distinction she didn’t understand until she came to America.

In Mario Chard’s “Land of Fire,” was it the truth or a lie that killed the migrants in the desert? And what if that’s the wrong question? What if we say it was a horse?

Journalist Rebecca Mead explains why she first left England for the United States, and why she’s now moving back to a country that isn’t necessarily home.

As a teen, Jabeen Akhtar discovered that trying to be an exceptional immigrant can make you do stupid things.

A poet reflects on finding her words in the face of injustice.

The SCOTUS opinion upholding the Muslim ban might not be legally wrong, but shouldn’t the court look at what is just as well as what is legal?

How America punishes immigrant criminals multiple times for the same crime and continues traumatizing them.

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s Jezebel essay “A Theory of Animals” is a gut punch. Read it.

Quoting Shakespeare isn’t new, but using it in court to fight Trump’s immigration control is.

“Everyone who died that night died above the tenth floor.”

India’s once lucrative IT sector now fears it’s glory years are ending as one of its biggest companie starts downsizing.

Marie Myung-Ok Lee finds herself conflicted about attending a controversial author’s reading and wonders: what does “speaking up” actually mean?

For an immigrant, losing a home is a given, but Margarita Gokun Silver wonders if never finding one again is also part of the journey.

In a blistering essay, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio eviscerates an American Dream that lures migrants with the promise of opportunity, then forces them to live under constant threat.

Now that Europe welcomes migrants no longer, asylum seekers are making nearly impossible journeys through South America to the United States.

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in local reporting.

Imran Siddiquee considers the ways in which his identities — as a Bangladeshi-American and as a man — were shaped by growing up in the shadow of The Simpsons.