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Emigration and immigration

Displaced in the D.R.

by Rachel Nolan,

A country strips 210,000 of citizenship

American Hustle

How elite youth basketball exploits African athletes

Vacay-47

From blog posts on Paladin of Jihad offering advice for Western Muslims preparing to migrate (or “make hijra”) to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State.

Good Pilgrims

by Sarah Menkedick,

Why Mexican immigrants are moving back home

Beyond a Boundary

by James Marcus,

From a distance, as it hugs the hilly terrain, the fence looks almost decorative — a rambling, rust-colored abstraction. A thin ribbon of road runs alongside, its sandy surface kept…

Into Africa

by Howard W. French,

By Howard W. French, from China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa, published this month by Knopf. French is a former New York…

Last Request

From emails exchanged by employees of the U.S. State Department, an anonymous Iraqi man known here by the pseudonym Omar, and Omar’s brother. In 2011, Omar, who had worked as…

The only place to go

by Charles Bowden,

The battle of ideas

by Patrick Symmes,

Searching for the opposition in post-Fidel Cuba

Where everybody knows your name

by Harper’s Staff,

The great white north

Translated by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,