Immigration

Temporary Permanence and Forced Detention: In Conversation with Stephanie Malia Hom

May 26, 2020 | Andrea Bryant

Published by Cornell University Press in 2019 and awarded the 2019 American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize (20th and 21st Centuries), Stephanie Malia Hom’s Empire’s Mobius Strip: Hist...
The Docket

May 21, 2020 | Alexandra Magearu

Glass I am floating inside a blinding white box, suspended in the sky. As I lean against the wide window overlooking the city, my forehead touches the ice-cold surface, and I pull ba...
“Poetry, like bread, is for everyone”: A Conversation with Seth Michelson

November 21, 2017 | Arthur Dixon

Seth Michelson / Courtesy of Washington & Lee University In October 2017 nonprofit press Settlement House released Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention...
Senegalese Migrant Novelist Fatou Diome Is Now the Militant Marianne

October 4, 2017 | Rosemary Haskell

Fatou Diome / Courtesy of frenchculture.org Fatou Diome, a Senegalese migrant to France, turns her hand to nonfiction in her 2017 pre-election polemic, Marianne porte plainte! Identité nationale:...
The Failure of Misanthropy

February 6, 2017 | Yahia Lababidi

Geoff Livingston, “America Is a Land of Immigrants,” Dulles International Airport, January 28, 2017 Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal used to say that he drew his worldview from a dry cleaner’s slip he cam...
Muhammad Ali’s poetic side, food in the immigration novel, and more

June 10, 2016 | WLT

Muhammad Ali signing autographs for Volendam women. Wikimedia Commons News, Reviews, and Interviews NPR’s Juan Vidal writes about Muhammad Ali’s poetic side and his skill for linguistic thea...
Four Books Immigration Policy Makers Should Read

January 22, 2014 | Janny Gandhi

Photo by Anuska Sampedro/Flickr The United States prides itself upon being, as the clichéd phrase goes, “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” However, whenever the courageous refugees fle...
Ssshthanks Give in: A Vietnamese Refugee Remembers His First Thanksgiving

November 21, 2012 | Andrew Lam

Photo Flickr/NedraI “Thanks-giving,” said Mr. K., my seventh-grade English teacher. “Repeat after me: Thanksgiving.” “Ssshthanks give in,” I said, but the word tumbled and hissed, turning my mouth in...