How Kids Talk About Donald Trump
While adults worry Trump’s bullying style sets a bad example, white kids are pointing to their classmates and saying, “Donald Trump will send you away.”
Winter 2024
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Belabored Podcast #98: Teachers Mobilizing for Migrant Kids
Following the arrest of six children in immigration raids, public school teachers in North Carolina are rallying to protect their students from deportation.
A Lost Boy in Louisville: One Refugee’s Story
In 1986, Deng Manyoun left his southern Sudan town to escape civil war and famine. Nineteen years later, he was shot dead by a white police officer in Louisville, Kentucky. Manyoun’s story illustrates not just the alarming scale of U.S. police violence but the dramatic failure of our refugee resettlement policy.
Trumping History
The Trump phenomenon is best understood as an amalgam of three different, largely pathological strains in American history and culture.
Trump’s Monstrous Call
In Donald Trump’s campaign, a new kind of unapologetic brutality is coming to the home front.
Booked: A Suitcase Full of Passports
An interview with journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian about her new book, The Cosmopolites, and the buying and selling of citizenship.
The Polish Right in Triumph
The tide of anti-refugee hysteria sweeping Europe brought Poland’s right-wing, autocratic-leaning PiS (Law and Justice) party a stunning victory in last weekend’s elections, pushing the country’s electoral left even further to the margins.
A Nation of Migrants
Thinking of the United States as a nation of immigrants may promote inclusivity in a time of rising xenophobia, but it also serves to exclude and obscure what the U.S. really is: a nation of migrants.
The Outside-Inside Game
A dialogue between two veteran immigrant rights advocates who have watched the movement grow, diversify, and sometimes contradict itself over the past three decades.
Fit for Citizenship? A Photo Essay
Even as America defined itself as a “nation of immigrants,” it sought a more perfect union by engineering the masses at its gateway.
American Orientalism
From the late nineteenth century to our post-9/11 era, Americans have imagined South Asians simultaneously as exotic and barbaric, magical and menacing—to the detriment of those immigrants who are already most vulnerable.
From the Margins: Introducing Our Spring Issue
Featuring essays by Vivek Bald, Michelle Chen, Anjali Kamat, Mae Ngai, and more, our Spring issue examines the power of borders—real and imagined—and what they look like from the perspective of those they seek to exclude.
Updating Debs’s Dream
Nearly every morning, hundreds of immigrants from Latin America come to my affluent town in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. to work. They build or clean million-dollar houses, cook and wash dishes at fast-food and fancy restaurants, care for the …
New Haven Rising
As “eds and meds” reshape working-class New Haven, labor and community groups are joining forces to transform the service economy and build a more democratic city.
Executive Justice?
Both law and history are on Obama’s side when it comes to executive action on immigration.
