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December 6, 2022
The West’s Broken Approach to Refugees
The persecution of non-white refugees seems to be on the rise not just in countries with far-right governments, but also in those known for their liberality.
Helen Benedict
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December 1, 2022
The Polycrisis at the Border
Levi Vonk’s Border Hacker digs into the intersecting failures that have led to a brutal system of forced displacement in the Americas.
Caroline Tracey
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November 23, 2022
The Undocumented Can Work Jobs at the University of California, and Latinas Are Fighting Toxic Pollution
On this week’s episode of Start Making Sense, UCLA law professor Ahilan Arulanantham and writer Eliza Moreno join the show.
Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense
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November 16, 2022
Michelle de Kretser’s Unsettled Australia
Her novels examine how migration and globalization have changed the country’s identity and relation to the rest of the world.
Nawal Arjini
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November 15, 2022
Kiribati’s Disorder in the Court
The Pacific island nation’s attempted deportation of an Australian-born judge shows how the decolonizing world’s reliance on foreign-born judges threatens nascent democracies.
Pete McKenzie
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October 31, 2022
Javier Zamora and the Canon of Undocumented Literature
The poet’s memoir joins a growing body of work chronicling the personal and political odysseys undocumented Americans face.
Jesús A. Rodríguez
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October 18, 2022
ICE Is Subjecting a Record Number of Asylum Seekers to Electronic Monitoring
While Biden has reduced the overall number of migrants in ICE detention, his administration has also presided under a significant expansion of electronic monitoring.
Gaby Del Valle
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October 17, 2022
With DACA in Jeopardy, It’s Time for Congress to Act
Three-quarters of Americans support legal status for immigrants brought to the United States as children, yet Congress has failed to enact permanent protections.
Teresa Mettela
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September 28, 2022
We Like the Idea of Asylum Seekers, but Not the Real Thing
The 12-foot-tall puppet of a Syrian refugee has been welcomed in New York and around the world. Real refugees? Not so much.
Helen Benedict
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September 26, 2022
Let’s Talk About Ron DeSantis’s “Reason” for Kidnapping Migrants
The media has done a poor job of questioning the Florida governor, but the few explanations he’s given are shocking.
Elie Mystal