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Immigration
Posted inJune 1, 2020: Dissent at a Distance
Protesting immigrant detention during a pandemic
Will new forms of collective action lead to permanent societal changes?
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Teenagers in ICE detention are worried about COVID-19
Alone in Pacific Northwest facilities, undocumented youth are in precarious situations, advocates say.
Posted inMay 1, 2020: Lives on Lockdown
Public health workers innovate around social distancing guidelines
Outreach to immigrant communities moves to Facebook and phones, as roving mobile health programs deliver food and medicine.
Posted inApril 1, 2020: Land-Grab Universities
How the U.S. immigration system has grown increasingly cruel
The nation’s migration deterrence policy shapes the way immigrants are seen and treated.
Posted inApril 1, 2020: Land-Grab Universities
The road to ecofascism is paved with green intentions
Why fusing nationalism and naturalism is a bad idea.
Posted inMarch 16, 2020: Wiring the Wild
Overcoming winter’s alienation
I long felt shut out of the season. Snowshoeing changed that.
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A long journey awaits transgender migrants in detention
After mistreatment by ICE, LGBTQ women are transferred around the West.
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Western states widely support refugee resettlement
The president’s executive order meant to limit resettlement, but the West is opting for more.
Posted inMarch 1, 2020: Predator (Mis)perceptions
Our detention system is bankrupting immigrants
As corporations cash in, mixed-status families are thrown into deep poverty.
Posted inFebruary 1, 2020: How One Woman Took a Stand Against Tribal Disenrollment and Paid For It
A particular kind of immigrant journey
Tope Folarin’s coming-of-age story recounts the transformations of a Nigerian-American family in Utah.
Posted inFebruary 1, 2020: How One Woman Took a Stand Against Tribal Disenrollment and Paid For It
Why the University of California is fighting for DACA
From a campus legal clinic all the way to the Supreme Court, UC stands up for Dreamers.
Posted inFebruary 1, 2020: How One Woman Took a Stand Against Tribal Disenrollment and Paid For It
Only in death do some deported veterans return home
Military service comes with no guarantees of citizenship.
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Trump’s border wall threatens fish species
The U.S. is skirting conservation laws and withdrawing millions of gallons of groundwater.
Posted inDecember 9, 2019: Crossing to Safety
Migrant labor activists win lawsuit for foreign shepherds
Ranchers must now bring in immigrant sheepherders under permanent visas.
Posted inDecember 9, 2019: Crossing to Safety
What the cowboy hat says about ‘Americanism’
A problematic symbol of the West gets a reboot.
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Spokane vs. the Border Patrol
How immigration agents stake out a city bus station.
Posted inDecember 9, 2019: Crossing to Safety
When post-9/11 racism haunts an American family
In Laila Lalami’s new book, a Moroccan-American family seeks a sense of belonging in California.
Posted inDecember 9, 2019: Party Favors
The penetrable wall; baffling thievery; unretiring outdoors
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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Scott Warren reflects on the Borderlands
After two years of federal prosecution the humanitarian aid worker was acquitted in November.