immigration

“Of Women and Salt” Treats Immigrant Mothers as More Than Martyrs

Gabriela Garcia, a light-skinned Latinx woman with long blond hair and in gray plastic glasses, leans her head against her hand
by Barbara Sostaita
March 16, 2021 at 9:00am
Gabriela Garcia teaches us that we do migrant women a disservice when we romanticize their struggles.
Portrait of Greisa Martínez Rosas, a Mexican woman with long dark brown curls, wearing a white blazer and smiling

BitchTapes: Immigrant Dreaming

by Greisa Martínez Rosas
February 12, 2021 at 2:50pm
Greisa Martínez Rosas outlines some of the songs that have helped guide her ethos as an organizer and a movement leader. Read more »
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a “Keep America Great” Campaign Rally. Signs in the back read “Latinos for Trump.”

There’s No Such Thing as the “Latino Vote”

by Tina Vasquez
November 9, 2020 at 1:55pm
Latinos “flocked to the polls” in numbers that far exceeded what experts expected. Read more »
two women in shadow walk hand in hand with two children

Forced Collection: Abolishing ICE Is a Call for Reproductive Justice

by Barbara Sostaita
September 22, 2020 at 12:12pm
The current forced sterilization of migrant women is not an aberration or anomaly in the history of this country. Read more »
Stephanie Camba sits in the shadows of a tree in the grass, surrounded by books.

Allowed to Imagine: What We Lose When Migrant Folks Aren’t Able to Create

by Tina Vasquez
August 21, 2020 at 11:28am
There’s a rich and beautiful tapestry of migrant artists, writers, poets, and musicians. Read more »
a photo of a brown wall with a multicolored layer of paper crosses with various names

Undivine Intervention: Do We Need Religious Faith to Defend Humanitarian Aid?

by Barbara Sostaita
June 3, 2020 at 10:55am
What religious-freedom claims mean for the legal future of progressive movements. Read more »
Bordadoras, Mexican women embroiders, stand together on the street of Nogales, Mexico

Weaving the Wall: Devotional Art Counters State Violence in the Borderlands

by Barbara Sostaita
May 13, 2020 at 12:15pm
Border artists summon the sacred and repair what has been broken. Read more »
a caravan of cars hold signs in front of an ICE facility in Colorado to encourage the release of migrants

Contagion Is Not the Crisis: COVID-19 Is a Chance to Rethink Stereotypes About Immigrants

by Barbara Sostaita
April 22, 2020 at 12:00pm
Nationalistic racism tells us that migrants infest, infect, and invade the homeland.  Read more »
photo of a girl brushing her hair on a Mexican migrant caravan train

Listening for Footsteps: Offering Brief Safety in a Hostile Place

by Barbara Sostaita
January 24, 2020 at 12:47pm
Sanctuary is not simply a set-apart or sacred place, but rather the activity of fostering relationships built on care, mutuality, and reciprocity. Read more »
a white person holds a tablet that showcases the fingerprints of a woman of color whose hand is on top of a green scanner

Missing Cells: The Growing Economic Value of Immigrant and Refugee Biological Data

by Melissa Villa-Nicholas
December 19, 2019 at 2:02pm
Arresting and deporting undocumented people has become lucrative because their biological, biometric data can be mined, harvested, and used to generate profit. Read more »
photo of a woman and man embracing and kissing in a field with colorful trash bags over their heads

On “90 Day Fiancé,” Love Is a Form of Capital

by Jordan Taliha McDonald
November 11, 2019 at 8:49am
90 Day Fiancé exposes the attitudes and practices that have foreground America’s history of anti-immigrant sentiment, nativism, racism, and xenophobia. Read more »

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