Reports analysis, vision & strategy bearing on immigration and includes content relating to immigration law, discrimination and violence against immigrants, how globalisation and climate change impact immigration patterns, and more.
Gardeners have a saying about newly planted perennials: āThey sleep, then creep, then leap.ā Last summer I pulled a lot of grass…
Whenever I turn back to the history of Jim Crow, my teeth clench with rage. What enrages me is not only the…
The opening matches of the 2026 FIFA World Cup represent an ideological milestone for international sports. For the first time, forty-eight nations…
Nearly 40 women have joined the hunger strike at Delaney Hall immigrant jail in Newark, New Jersey, releasing a new set of…
South Africans commemorated two significant events in May: Africa Day and Workersā Day. These moments normally evoke political reflection on the importance…
Last June, train stations across France were transformed into impromptu immigration checkpoints. Citing a āsurgeā in illegal immigration, Franceās then-interior minister, Bruno…
For more than two weeks, hundreds of detainees atĀ Delaney HallĀ immigration detention center have been on hunger and labor strike. They are protesting…
Who would imagine that an international sporting event will be the next battleground in the fight against authoritarian repression? Yet that scenario…
The Mexican flag wasnāt a political statement. It was an acknowledgment of economic reality. This imageāa Mexican flag flying in Trump countryāencapsulates…
On March 30, twelve Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicles descended on a Milwaukee neighborhood to arrest Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian American…
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