In Search of the Chilean Paradise: Peruvians in Chile Forge a Community

In Search of the Chilean Paradise: Peruvians in Chile Forge a Community

“This area is full of Peruvians. They are everywhere, these dirty Indians that stand on the street all day. They ...
A Hard Road for Argentina's Bolivians

A Hard Road for Argentina’s Bolivians

As the sun rises in a working class neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Bolivian immigrants wait on a street corner for ...
Dominican Republic Spurns Haitian Migrants: Rejection of African Heritage Fuels Anti-Haitian Views

Dominican Republic Spurns Haitian Migrants: Rejection of African Heritage Fuels Anti-Haitian Views

Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a single Caribbean island, Hispaniola, but Haitians living in the Dominican Republic—who number at ...
Travelling North: A Chronicle of an Undocumented Journey

Travelling North: A Chronicle of an Undocumented Journey

In April 1994 I came to the United States from El Salvador. I came with three other young women and ...
Brazil's Prison Debacle

Brazil’s Prison Debacle

In the early afternoon of February 18, 2001, during family visiting hours, the biggest prison rebellion in Brazil’s history began ...
Mapuches Press for Autonomy

Mapuches Press for Autonomy

On July 25, over a hundred members of Chile’s most militant indigenous group, the Mapuche, burst into government offices in ...
Mexicanness" in New York: Migrants Seek New Place in Old Racial Order

Mexicanness” in New York: Migrants Seek New Place in Old Racial Order

Over the past decade, one of the more dramatic population developments in the United States has been the burgeoning of ...
Japanese-Peruvians-Reviled and Respected: The Paradoxial Place of Peru's Nikkei

Japanese-Peruvians-Reviled and Respected: The Paradoxial Place of Peru’s Nikkei

Percy Takayama says that several times recently when he’s approached a Lima newspaper kiosk, people gathered to scan the tabloid ...