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Migration

On the Uses of the Palm

October 19, 2020 • by Elaine Lingyuan Wang

In my case, she’s not really my sister. In 1980, a nationwide policy was introduced in China allowing every couple to give birth to only one child. At a population control symposium that spring, a group of rocket scientists at the Chinese University of Science and Technology used cybernetics – ...

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Being Ahead of All Departures

October 19, 2020 • by Rahul Pandita

In Paris in the 1920s, Hemingway has returned from the bookstore run by the lovely Sylvia Beach, who is very nice to him, letting him borrow books without a deposit. It is with that goodness in his heart that Hemingway returns to his cramped flat and tells his wife about ...

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Child Separation

A documentary poem reacting to a film about the separation of children from their parents in Nazi camps

October 19, 2020 • by Radu Vancu

The child Fred is told by his mother: “You must not look back.”And he did not look back – and he survived – and his mother did not.Orpheus was not as strong you were, Fred – he looked back, the poor thing.On December 6th, 1938, in the middle of the ...

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Separation

Deserts, hurricanes, and classrooms

October 19, 2020 • by Brett Warnke

Personally, these stories brought to mind a student, Jonathan, who recently took my college writing class. He’s a first-year full-time student who manages a fast-food restaurant in City Heights, a dense refugee-packed neighborhood in San Diego. Four years ago, he was my strongest 8th grade English student in middle school. He ...

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Memory’s Fragile Thread

Judaism’s view of – and response to – family separation as theological crisis

October 19, 2020 • by Jason Rubenstein

Heda Kovaly’s memory of the day in spring 1941 when she was sent to the Gross-Rosen labor camp focused on an evanescent memento of her murdered mother: “My mother, I couldn’t think of anything except my mother, my mama, and I remember sitting on the ground and held out my ...

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The Fight for International Students is a Blow to Racism

The Trump administration’s hostility towards international students is only one chapter of a longer history

July 30, 2020 • by Omer Leshem, Raphael Ogusz and Maryam Omidi

But the short episode achieved its purpose: intensifying the discomfort on international students and workers by throwing international students, college administrators, and faculty into needless turmoil. While many understood the move as intended to coerce universities to open up their campuses at a time when COVID-19 cases are soaring in ...

The Fight for International Students is a Blow to Racism

Migration

A Victory in an Unnecessary Battle

Expelling international students was not an option

July 16, 2020 • by Dwight A. McBride

Tuesday’s court hearing on the July 6 ICE guidance took all of ten minutes. That was the time it took for the U.S. Government’s counsel to inform the judge that ICE would not be moving forward with a new rule that would have expelled international students from the U.S. this ...

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The Supreme Court’s DACA Ruling & Me

On being superfluous

July 1, 2020 • by José Ángel Navejas

When I crossed the border from Mexico in 1993, there were no doubts about what I would do once I arrived in Chicago: find a job in a factory, or wash dishes, or get down on my knees to scrub dirty toilets, whichever came first. In Mexico, I had grown ...

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We Need Racial and Legal Equality in the US Asylum System Too

June 20, 2020 • by Lara Nettelfield and Rebecca Kobrin

Saturday, June 20 is World Refugee Day, honored by the United Nations to raise awareness and educate the public about refugees, their basic rights, their situation around the world, and the responsibilities of states to grant them asylum. The spontaneous protest movement that has engulfed the United States, after millions of ...

We Need Racial and Legal Equality in the US Asylum System Too

History

Taking Children

An excerpt from Taking Children: A History of American Terror by Laura Briggs

June 8, 2020 • by Laura Briggs

The past stalks the present, the ghost in the machine of memory. This is why history writing matters; it gives us ways to understand the specters already among us and to assemble tools to transform our situation. Things change; the epidemic of child taking in the context of mass incarceration ...

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The Fragility of the Global Mobility Regime

What states could not do on their own, the virus has completed

May 19, 2020 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

For the past decade or so, immigration advocates in the global North have seen their primary opponents as populist parties and politicians, who rose to power on assertions that immigration is economically and demographically harmful to advanced democracies. It has been a long, drawn-out battle and, since Brexit and the ...

The Fragility of the Global Mobility Regime

Migration

Letter from Athens

Liberal democratic institutions have regained their footing, even as Greece faces a fresh refugee crisis amid a global pandemic

April 28, 2020 • by Stan Draenos

At migrant camps on Greek islands facing Turkey, the pandemic could not have hit at a worse time. Beginning last summer, a surge in refugees arriving in wobbly rubber dinghies swelled occupancy at the camps to an alarming 42,000 by the start of 2020. The latest surge was part of Turkish President Tayyip ...