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 Brazil’s history began ...
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
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 he’s approached a Lima newspaper kiosk, people gathered to scan the tabloid ...
Police Halt “Outing” of Chilean Magnate and Human Rights Violator
SANTIAGO—In late June, the Chilean human rights movement known as La Funa was met with water cannons, beatings and mass ...
We Will Continue to Disturb His Peace
Since the bombing of the Moneda Palace, the 1973 event that put Augusto Pinochet in power, he has continued to ...
Crossing Borders: Race and Racism in the Americas, Part II
The last two decades have been marked by movements of people on a scale not seen in the Americas since ...
