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Immigration

Global Justice, Politics

No Money and No Plan for Refugees

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

Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Global Justice, Politics

A Country for Old Men

Prominent Hungarian intellectuals have taken surprising anti-immigrant stances.

Holly Case

Global Justice, Politics

How Refugees Can Save Europe

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

Paul Linden-Retek

Global Justice, Politics

America’s Refugee Debt

It is time for the United States to take responsibility for the war it encouraged in Syria.

Aziz Z. Huq

Global Justice, Politics

The Failure of Refugee Camps

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

Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Literature & Culture, Race

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

Law & Justice, Politics

A Tale of Two Immigration Judgments

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

Louis Fisher

Law & Justice, Politics

Don't Defund, Just Dismantle the Department of Homeland Security

Republicans are right to obstruct funding for DHS—but they're doing it for the wrong reasons.

Tom Barry

Law & Justice, Politics

With Immigration Plan, Obama Invited Legal Scrutiny

Even if Obama's immigration measure gets past procedural obstacles, it may be quickly revoked.

Louis Fisher

Global Justice, Politics

Ever-Crumbling Walls

The identity of a nation lies in its borders.

Santiago Zabala, Søren Tinning

Law & Justice, Politics

The American “Deportation Mill”

Immigrant families imprisoned in Artesia, New Mexico, say their due process rights are being violated.

Lauren Carasik

Global Justice, Politics

Europe's Deadly Border

Migrants are dying as they cross the Mediterranean. Is there a better way? With photographs by David Bacon.

David Bacon

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