Grannies Respond/Abuelas Responden: Go Granny Go!
Elisa visited a Dallas boys’ migrant detention facility. “This hit me. This could have been my father. It was like a prison. The kids were depressed. Some were suicidal. It was heartbreaking.”
Majid Naficy: Two Neighbors
The scent of chicken tahchin
Is wafting up to me
Through the window
And I know soon
She will knock at my door…
Shailly Gupta Barnes: The War on Immigrants is a War on all Americans
In states across the country, cynical politicians are turning a humanitarian crisis into political theater.
Jyotika Saksena: Common Misperceptions About Refugees
America needs more refugees, not less.
Houman Harouni: The Dervish
The postures I held for long breaths by the flow of the Ganges I did not hold to achieve light I held no star in sight as I turned my … Continue reading
Video: A Woman of No Importance
A noir about a woman at a crossroads of morality and self-interest.
Video: The Facility
Detained inside an infamous American detention center as the pandemic spreads, a group of immigrants organize in protest to demand protection and release from confinement.
Video: Chuj Boys of Summer
Speaking only his native language, a Guatemalan teenager begins his new life in rural Colorado. A true story starring those who live it.
Video: Green
In this short film which won the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, two undocumented Turkish brothers face the challenges of life in New York City.
Sandy Solomon: Jewish Immigrant, Michigan, 1885
He knows what his father would say—Throw it back—
so he flings it away, watches it twirl as it falls,
like a star arcing over the stirring grasses.
Video: Zarlasht Halaimzai | What it’s like to be a war refugee
In this poignant, vital talk, Zarlasht Halaimzai articulates the lingering trauma of being expendable — and shares how belonging to a community can help bring back feelings of long-lost safety.
Glen Brown: Bubbie
I imagine her escaping Ukraine,
like a small bird
breaking formation over unfamiliar terrain
Alison Luterman: She for whom I am named
left Russia at fifteen to follow her betrothed.
Good-bye, skinny chickens and fly-bitten cows,
synagogue leaning on one side, as if to dodge blows
from a Cossack’s boot
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley: News
our people who do the hard work
of America,
dying as caregivers
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