Immigration

Refuge for Fugitives

We can learn from the surprising coalition of people who sheltered and rescued escaped slaves.

  • Stephen Kantrowitz

The Real Source of Right-Wing Populism

It’s cultural resentment, not economic malaise.

  • Pranab Bardhan

Basic Income Is a Dead End

Basic income is a seductive poison that would benefit the margins of society at the expense of the middle class and immigrants.

  • Anke Hassel

Riding La Bestia

Following the 2014 immigration crisis, Valeria Luiselli began volunteering at a New York City immigration court. This is what she heard.

  • Valeria Luiselli

How Immigrants Became Criminals

Most Americans are blind to the separate and unequal justice system that governs immigration detention and deportation.

  • Alan A. Aja
  • Alejandra Marchevsky

Do Outsiders Have Legal Rights?

Stayed or not, Trump's ban highlights the need for strong immigrant rights.

  • Adam Hosein

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Whom Do Sanctuary Cities Protect?

Trump’s grand narrative is simply wrong.

  • Lauren Carasik

Islam on Trial

For too long we have acquiesced to Islamophobic government policies. The cost of our silence is now clear.

  • Jeanne Theoharis
  • Amna A. Akbar
with responses from
  • Wadie Said
  • Sudha Setty
  • Lisa Stampnitzky
  • Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
  • Tarek Z. Ismail
  • Sahar F. Aziz

Scholars in Exile

Refugee scholars in Europe face tremendous obstacles. Now some universities are trying to change that.

  • Paul Hockenos

The Myth of the Muslim Country

Calling the nations subjected to the ban Muslim is sloppy, misguided, and dangerous.

  • Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

Under Western Eyes

Islamophobia is a shared project of the Democrat and Republican parties, long preceding the rise of white nationalism and Trump.

  • John R. Bowen
  • Aziz Rana

After Trump

A pluralistic democracy is built on debate, disagreement, and wakeful action. This forum begins the conversation.

  • Joshua Cohen
with responses from
  • Janice Fine
  • Judith Levine
  • Robin D. G. Kelley
  • Christopher Petrella
  • William Howell
  • Nick Bromell

No Place to Call Home

The Poetics of Displacement and War

  • Steve Healey

On Ice

In U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities, the law’s reach is tenuous.

  • Colin Dayan

“Go home!”: Being Foreign in Post-Brexit Britain

For many EU citizens in the UK, the Brexit vote means the end of home as they know it.

  • Andrea Mammone

Brexit Threatens World Peace and Security

The vote will have consequences far beyond the UK's borders. 

  • Alex de Waal

No Money and No Plan for Refugees

The UN’s World Humanitiarian Summit came up empty-handed.

  • Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

A Country for Old Men

Xenophobia, antipolitics, and the crisis of liberalism in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.

  • Holly Case

How Refugees Can Save Europe

Europe must accept that post-nationalism, by nature, is porous at its borders.

  • Paul Linden-Retek

America’s Refugee Debt

The United States should take responsibility for its actions in Syria

  • Aziz Z. Huq

The Failure of Refugee Camps

Refugee camps, intended to be temporary, host people for an average of 12 years.

  • Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Family Farms vs. Americanism

Below the surface–and sometimes above it–a lot of today’s debates around immigration reform are about cultural assimilation.

  • Claude S. Fischer

A Tale of Two Immigration Judgements

Federal courts have been busy scrutinizing the government’s handling of immigration.

  • Louis Fisher

The American “Deportation Mill”

Immigrant families detained in Artesia, New Mexico, are suing the U.S. government

  • Lauren Carasik
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