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Think Twice Before Posting: Social Media Posts Can Impact Immigration to the US (2020)
January 26, 2022f you are one of the 3.484 billion people who use social media and you are seeking an immigration benefit, you’ll want to think twice… Read more
Social Media Monitoring (2019)
January 26, 2022Personal information gleaned from social media posts has been used to target dissent and subject religious and ethnic minorities to enhanced vetting and surveillance. Read… Read more
The Power of Cartoons in Global Education: An Interview with Christian Clark
July 27, 2020Conducted by Sumita S. Chakravarty A former cartoonist and two-time Emmy-award winning writer for the Children’s Television Workshop flagship show, Sesame Street, Christian Clark works… Read more
Mapping Art in Times of Protest
July 24, 2020— by Pamela Vasquez Torres Pamela Vazquez Torres is a Mexican art historian living in the Twin Cities since 2017. She is driven by the… Read more
Artwork: Artist Cosimo Cavallaro Builds a Wall of Cotija Cheese at the Mexican Border (2020)
November 11, 2019From ARTNET.com: Artist Cosimo Cavallaro is helping President Donald Trump build his controversial border wall between the US and Mexico—but his barrier is constructed not from steel… Read more
Artwork: Rael San Fratello, Teeter-Totter Wall (2019)
November 11, 2019From ARTNET.com: “The art project, which has been a media sensation, is the work of architecture studio Rael San Fratello, a partnership between San Jose State interior design faculty member… Read more
Database/Community: Syria Cultural Index
November 11, 2019Berlin based non-profit CoCulture is working with the Syrian diaspora artistic community to build connections and cohesions to provide creative outlets and structure to a… Read more
African Migrants Stuck in Mexico Plead For Release: “Africa Weeps, Free Us”
November 11, 2019The Los Angeles Times featured a story about African Migrants attempting to reach the southern US border to seek asylum. According the the report, over… Read more
Why migrants need social citizenship
September 17, 2017Prominent political philosophers — including David Miller at Nuffield College, Oxford, and Joseph Carens at the University of Toronto — outline an account of “social membership”… Read more
UNHCR steps up efforts towards alternatives to detention in Libya and solutions for vulnerable refugees
September 17, 2017UNHCR is currently negotiating with the Libyan authorities the establishment of an open reception centre that would allow refugees and asylum seekers freedom of movement,… Read more
Hotline aids families of border crossers
December 16, 2015“There are 2,771 crosses, so 2,771 human remains since 2000,” says Cristen Vernon Coalición de Derechos Humanos, Missing Migrant Hotline coordinator for Derechos Humanos. That… Read more
La Santa Cecilia’s Music Video for “El Hielo (ICE)”
October 18, 2015La Santa Cecilia’s Music Video for “El Hielo (ICE)” Produced by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network as part of the #Not1More series at http://notonemoredeportation.com with… Read more
Advocacy Blogs and National Organizations
October 18, 2015Advocacy Blogs and National Organizations Americas Mexico Blog — It chronicles and analyzes the developments in the U.S. and the consequences in Mexico of U.S. policies in… Read more
Keep our families together
October 18, 2015End Detentions and Deportations NOW! (2013) 12-year-old DRUM youth member, Nushin Kashem, is fighting to bring her father home from detention, and for all immigrant… Read more
Newcomers High School: New Immigrants Share Their Stories
October 18, 2015The students of Newcomers High School in Long Island City, which specializes in teaching recent immigrants, and those of St. Luke’s, a private middle school… Read more
Activists Protest Against the Detainment and Rampant Abuse of LGBTQ Immigrants
October 18, 2015A number of organizations led a march on May 27, 2015 to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Washington D.C. to protest the detainment of… Read more
National Immigrant Youth Alliance Infiltrates Michigan ICE: Calhoun County Jail
October 18, 2015On April 4th, 2013, Claudia Munoz, an organizer with The National Immigrant Youth Alliance, allowed for herself to be detained by Michigan immigration in order… Read more
Undocumented and Awkward Series by Julio Salgado
October 18, 2015The 28-year-old artist and video producer was among dozens of undocumented immigrants featured on the 2012 cover of Time magazine who have “outed” themselves, talking publicly about their… Read more
Jose Antonio Vargas on ‘biggest story of my life’
October 11, 2015“Documented” is the new immigration documentary from Jose Antonio Vargas that is the centerpiece film at this year’s AFI Docs festival in Washington, D.C., and… Read more