Tag: migrants

A Chinese painter explores the US-Mexico border and discovers the reality of the border crisis.

When a refugee flees to another country and claims asylum, she is, in effect, petitioning the state to listen to her story.

On Lampedusa, history is never far from the islanders’ thoughts, and they are preoccupied by its contradictions. Is Lampedusa a stop on a long journey, or is it a graveyard? Does every fence need a hole in it?

“His brother, he assumed, was in the island’s detention facility, waiting to be sent to Athens with hundreds of other migrants. Days turned into weeks. Every time Javed tried Masood’s phone, the call went straight to voicemail. After a month passed with no word, it dawned on Javed that his brother was missing.”

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

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

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

A visit to the only shelter in Mexico for migrants who have been mutilated along the migrant trail.

The anthropologist studies the objects left behind by migrants as they cross the border.

“When it comes to the human body, everything can be trafficked. Migrants are a product in a system that breaks them down into lucrative parts, often until there is nothing left.”

The Economist reports on how refugees prize mobile phone connection — even over food.