The Opportunistic Border Logic of the Pandemic
As the Trump administration uses the pandemic to enact its border obsession, we must instead reframe our thinking around interdependence. ...
Death by Deportation, With Help From the Human Rights Establishment
By defining violence narrowly, the asylum system—and human rights organizations that uphold it—legitimates deporting people back to face everyday injustices ...
MAS Party Under Threat as Bolivia Moves Towards New Elections (Without Evo)
With new elections scheduled in Bolivia, the MAS party under attack, and the resurgent Right fortified by the de facto ...
Will Evo Morales Survive Bolivia’s Fires?
Devastating wildfires in Bolivia may affect Evo Morales's prospects for a fourth presidential term, or curb his governing mandate. ...
The Case for Nuance in Immigrant Stories (Review)
In his new book The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez, Aaron Bobrow-Strain captures why true border stories defy simplicity. ...
Adoption, Bigotry, Collagen: Some ABCs of Puerto Rico’s LGBT
Puerto Rico has a complicated and oftentimes contradictory history regarding gender and sexuality. In the second posting of NACLA-Global Voices' ...
Reducing Migrants’ Lives to One Grisly Photograph
In the name of “sparking a reaction” from an indifferent public, images of migrant deaths decontextualize their reasons for fleeing ...
Abolish ICE! Fighting for Humanity over Profit in Immigration Policy
No extent of reform can humanize an agency designed to criminalize migrants, deny their humanity, and profit off their detention ...
