Siding with the Barbarians
Two radical artists have set up an immigration agency, a political consulting firm, a Ponzi scheme for marketing contemporary art, and seven other enterprises. Welcome to the mock entrepreneurial art of Société Réaliste.
Review: Broken Immigration System
David Bacon’s Illegal People illustrates how current immigration laws hurt citizens and legal immigrants as well as the undocumented immigrants whom the laws target.
Book Event: David Bacon’s ‘Illegal People’
Border Crossings: Links Between Immigration, Debt and Trade
Debt cancellation, combined with new approaches to trade, investment, and aid, could help many developing countries reduce migration pressures.
Tan Morgul
Turkish journalist Tan Morgul discusses Turkey’s Kurdish population, and describes a new Turkey born of changes in politics and regional immigration.
Interview with Edwidge Danticat
E. Ethelbert Miller talks with Edwidge Danticat about her new memoir, U.S. immigration law, and U.S.-Haitian relations.
Remittances: For Love and Money
The grassroots transfer of money from North to South can be a powerful tool of cross-border organizing.
NAFTA: Kicked Up a Notch
NAFTA is not just about free trade any more. As columnist Laura Carlsen explains, NAFTA has a new and ominous punch as well.
Walls, Amnesty, and False Choices
Most undocumented workers come from a region heavily influenced by U.S. foreign policy. It’s not a coincidence.
Military Intelligence
In his bid to appeal to a conservative base on the road to 2008, John McCain repeatedly urged last week that the United States send more troops to Iraq to get the job done. The military response to McCain’s political appeal demonstrates that military intelligence is no oxymoron.
Enlightenment Returns?
Do the 2006 elections mark a return of the Enlightenment?
Alternatives to a Wall
How NAFTA, CAFTA, and other corporate-friendly trade policies displace farmers and create mass migration, and how we can do better.
Mexican Election Could Lead to Immigration Shift
This op-ed ran in the Baltimore Sun on June 30, 2006.
A Marshall Plan for Mexico? Well …
This op-ed appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on June 11, 2006.
No Surprise in Bush’s ‘Emergencies’
President Bush has yet another supposed “emergency” on his hands. This time it’s illegal immigration.