Separated by war, boundaries, and immigration policies they cannot control, one young Yemeni couple refuses to give up on love.
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Motherhood on the Line
Three asylum seekers navigate coronavirus and climate change at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Where Will Everyone Go?
As temperatures and sea levels rise, populations flee from regions that are no longer livable, and the United States and other nations choose to build walls and keep migrants out, where will the world’s climate refugees go?
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The Migrant in the Mirror
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.
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The Weather and the Wall
Climate change and the border wall are more connected than you might think.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
On Being Eritrean
In her essay in Pacific Standard, Rahawa Haile writes about identity, the anxiety of origins, and the search for a grounded life in unstable, isolating locales. Born to Eritrean parents, Haile grew up in Miami, Florida, speaking English and Tigrinya in a low land of built of hurricane deposits that felt doomed to rising sea levels. […]
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On making a move from the City to the South. Steven Boone and other New Yorkers have headed to Warner Robins, Georgia: Like so many young black parents, she moved south not just to provide her children with a more secure environment but also to escape the punishing New York rents. In Warner Robins, entire […]