immigration
Faces of the American Dream
Between 1905 and 1925, a clerk at Ellis Island took photographs of immigrants to the U.S. Today, the images created by Augustus Sherman are providing a point of departure for research and an inspiration for artworks.
Managing Migration
As increasing illegal immigration from India to the U.S. comes under the spotlight, New Delhi has been prompt in communicating that it intends to cooperate with Trump.
Musk and MAGA Fight Over Visas
Tensions within Trump’s 2024 coalition regarding the H-1B visa program — which recently led to a full-blown online war between Trump’s advisers, like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, and his more hard-line supporters — reveal anxieties about the rise of Indians and skills-based immigration in the United States.
The Norwegian Archipelago That Became an Unexpected Melting Pot
The Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard is an experiment in internationalism, allowing non-Norwegians to live and work without visas and foreign entities to exploit minerals, but events beyond its icy shores mean that its two largest settlements are rapidly changing.
‘Mo’ Reveals the Lighter and Darker Sides of the Palestinian Experience in the US
This isn’t just a show about being Arab or Muslim American and caught between two worlds. It is also about a broken immigration system and the unnecessary hardship it causes thousands of people who call the United States home.
Even After Decades, Europe’s Turkish Diaspora Struggles for Recognition
Today, Turkish diaspora communities encompassing roughly 5.5 million people are spread across Europe, forming one of the continent’s largest migrant groups and the largest Muslim-majority community. But 60 years and at least four generations later, many people from the Turkish diaspora still feel like second-class citizens in Europe.
Why Are Iraqi Kurds Fleeing to Europe?
Just as in the rest of Iraq and the wider region, the Kurdish model has failed to resolve deep social, political and economic issues by mere nationalistic thinking and slogans. The ongoing mass Kurdish exodus to Europe through Belarus is a clear example of this failure.