
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
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
Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a single Caribbean island, Hispaniola, but Haitians living in the Dominican Republicwho number at ...

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
In the early afternoon of February 18, 2001, during family visiting hours, the biggest prison rebellion in Brazils history began ...

Mapuches Press for Autonomy
On July 25, over a hundred members of Chiles most militant indigenous group, the Mapuche, burst into government offices in ...

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