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Passport and travel documents, a watch, an open book, and coins on top of paper maps
Posted inNonfiction

Curator Spotlight: Vesna Jaksic Lowe on What It Means To Straddle Multiple Cultures

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 30, 2021October 21, 2022

The writer of the Immigrant Strong newsletter wants to diversify your bookshelf. 

Posted inEditor's Pick

‘I’ve Lost Everything to the Beast’

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 30, 2021October 19, 2022

“Formed in Los Angeles by refugees fleeing US-backed violence in El Salvador, MS-13 has wreaked havoc in Central America.”

Posted inCurrent Events, Featured, Highlight, Nonfiction, Podcasts, Writing

Trapped in Limbo Down Under

by Seyward Darby December 7, 2020October 19, 2022

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

Posted inEditor's Pick

I’ve Fled New York with My Wife, Kids and Dog – Just as my Ancestors Fled the 1918 Pandemic

by Sari Botton April 2, 2020October 19, 2022

After covering the plights of refugees around the world as a journalist, Bryan Mealer finds himself a refugee, fleeing New York City for his childhood home of west Texas — where his great-grandmother and her oldest daughter died in the influenza epidemic of 1918.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Lovers in Auschwitz, Reunited 72 Years Later. He Had One Question.

by Sari Botton December 12, 2019October 19, 2022

The heart-warming story of Holocaust survivors David Wisnia and Helen Spitzer, young lovers at Auschwitz, who got to meet one last time before she died at 100 last year. At the meeting, “Zippi,” as she was known then, revealed she’d used her position as a privileged inmate and a graphic designer at the camp five […]

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In a World Full of Cruelty and Injustice, Becoming a Mother Anyway

by Sari Botton July 26, 2019October 19, 2022

In this personal essay, a visit to Auschwitz makes Eliza Margarita Bates only more determined to have a baby, despite her painful chronic illness.

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Sing a Song of Hope: ‘Everything will be all right’

by Krista Stevens June 6, 2019October 19, 2022

“Like, wow. This is another family I have found.”

Posted inCulture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story

How Refugees Die

by Longreads May 23, 2019October 19, 2022

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

Posted inEditor's Pick

Mothering on the Borders

by Sari Botton April 25, 2019October 19, 2022

In this reported personal essay, Yifat Susskind reflects on what is revealed when we look at borders — and the violence and destructive policies that surround them — from the perspective of mothers.

Posted inBooks, Current Events, Fiction, Story

A Citizen Is Obliged To Listen

by Ankita Chakraborty February 26, 2019October 19, 2022

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

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