Black African immigrants, race and police brutality in America
Most poor African immigrants to the US can't pull the “get out of black”-card when confronted with racism, something middle class Africans can pull.
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Anti-racism without race
Italy also lacks a fully developed movement against racism led by people of color. It doesn't help that white activists prefers to racism as xenophobia.
No home for the “go-home blacks”
African refugees are systematically excluded from priority groups for resettlement in Western countries. The case of Canada.
The vote of Kwaku, the Ghanaian plumber in the Bronx
Africans are a fast-growing segment of the black immigrant population in the U.S, but there are few attempt to court them as voters.
Our Ivanka, our America
Most of the approximately eleven million people that live and work in the United States as illegal immigrants are Latin Americans. Some work for Republicans.
The resignation
France’s Minister of Justice resigns from the government, contesting François Hollande’s "terrorist law.”
Fueling rightwing populism
Xenophobia after the #ParisAttacks isn’t limited to boneheads like Rupert Murdoch.
Waiting to be local
The writer, in graduate school in Britain, writes about the various roadblocks in the way of Africans, in his case Ugandans, to travel to Europe.
Ride with Malitia Malimob
Rapper Chino’o talks about everything from immigration to police brutality in the U.S., and the future of Somalia.
Losing London
Ishtiyaq Shukri writes about his deportation from London’s Heathrow airport in July 2015.
Some refugees more equal than others
Many European governments favor “culturally close[r]” refugees and asylum-seekers: preferably white, educated Christians.
Blood dripping from his head
A painful, violent story of migration captured in the song "Lagos" - for our series "Liner Notes," in which musicians talk about making music.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic
The Dominican state and the country's elites make up a history of conflict with Haiti to justify the periodic deportation of Haitians in the Dominican Republic.
It’s about more than Mexico
How about giving US presidential aspirant, Donald Trump, some reading material on what the United States has brought to Latin America.
How the Dutch government polices unwanted black bodies
Often championed as a human rights defender, the Netherlands continuously fails miserably in politically protecting and socially including refugees.
Between Two Fires
A migrant's fight for a place in Germany.
The Gambia Gambit
There is a long-standing Norwegian tradition of externalizing racism, so that anti-black racism is always and inevitably located elsewhere.
The Right to Grow Old: Photos of the Central American Migrant Crisis
Central American migration, and especially the migration of undocumented children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras
Israel and the asylum seekers
If Israel doesn't send asylum seekers back to the countries they fled from, it deports them to "third countries."
Belonging—Why South Africans Refuse to let Africa in
Most South Africans have at least one thing in common: their hatred of other Africans coming from the rest of the continent.