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,

A neglected migration crisis off the African coast

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,…

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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

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…