Emigration and immigration

The Wanderer’s Port

By Thomas Chatterton Williams,

I landed in Lisbon late on a temperate Thursday in January. This was the end of an unusually pan-European week for me. I’d spent the previous two days in a…

Leftovers

By Marcelo Hernandez Castillo,

From Children of the Land, a memoir published this month by Harper. Hernandez Castillo was born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States when he was five years old.…

Oceans Apart

By Tommy Trenchard,

I had been in Domoni—an ancient, ramshackle trading town on the volcanic island of Anjouan—for only a few summer days in 2018 when Onzardine Attoumane, a local English teacher, offered…

Kindergarten Cops

From records of alleged behavior by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, as reported by unaccompanied minors, dating from 2009 to 2014. The A.C.L.U. Foundation of San Diego and Imperial…

“Nationalism” is rapidly overtaking even “populism” as a foremost political bogeyman. Yet progressives will often still embrace “patriotism.” The elevation of the last term is meant to deflect Trump-style accusations…

Left of Europe

By Ashley Smith,

From an interview with Neil Davidson published in the Summer 2019 issue of New Politics. Davidson teaches at the University of Glasgow. His most recent book, We Cannot Escape History,…

[Untitled]

By Demetris Koilalous,

A photograph by Demetris Koilalous from Caesura: The Duration of a Sigh, a monograph about the experience of migrants who cross the Aegean Sea to Greece, which was published last…

“Just Keep Going North”

By Harper’s Magazine, on July 3, 2019

Theories on the frontier: the process, politics, and ethics that arise while covering the U.S.-Mexico border Read More

El Corralón

By Earl Shorris,

Bayview, Texas, the Immigration and Naturalization Service Processing Center. The camp lies well to the north of the Rio Grande, covering 317 acres of the flatlands beside the Gulf of…

“Just Keep Going North”

By William T. Vollmann,

On February 5, 2019, the president of the United States (a certain Donald Trump) in his State of the Union speech warned of “migrant caravans and accused Mexican cities of…

The Truce

By Daniel Castro,

When I met Raúl Mijango, in a courtroom in San Salvador, he was in shackles, awaiting trial. He was paunchier than in the photos I’d seen of him, bloated from…

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The Wanderer’s Port

Leftovers

Oceans Apart

Kindergarten Cops

Patrios

Left of Europe

[Untitled]

“Just Keep Going North”

El Corralón

“Just Keep Going North”

The Truce

May 2019