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Curated news resources about immigration and related topics.
2022 News
Migrants dropped near vice president's home on frigid Christmas Eve
12/26/2022What Happens to Migrant Workers Who Built the World Cup
12/22/2022Secretary Mayorkas Extends and Redesignates Temporary Protected Status for Haiti for 18 Months
12/5/2022Helen Benedict, The Increasing Persecution of Refugees
12/4/2022New lawsuit filed against Florida officials
12/3/2022Creating classrooms that draw on immigrants’ skills
11/24/2022There Is No “Migrant Crisis”: The problem isn’t new; it’s the bordered logic of global apartheid itself
11/16/2022A Mexican American Artist Finds Heroes in Farmworkers, Narsiso Martinez’s portraits honor the immigrants behind big American agribusiness.
11/10/2022Holding Haitians at Guantánamo would be racist
11/5/2022The role of immigration in the market for eldercare
11/4/2022Anti-immigrant campaign ads negatively impact Latinos mental health and make them feel unwelcome in US
11/1/2022USA: Biden administration must not detain Haitian asylum seekers at Guantánamo
11/1/2022How Refugee Resettlement Works
10/18/2022Noncitizens pay taxes and join the military. Why shouldn’t they vote? In D.C., where disenfranchisement is personal, they soon will
10/10/2022"A Failure on All Our Parts.” Thousands of Immigrant Children Wait in Government Shelters.
10/7/2022Migrants to settle on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard when shelter closes this weekend
10/5/2022‘Perla’ investigation continues
10/4/2022'This has changed me'; Vineyarders say migrants transformed their lives, missions
9/30/2022Politicians are playing politics with refugees, but these workers are exactly what the US economy needs
9/29/2022Attorneys lay out legal options for Martha's Vineyard migrants, including a visa for crime victims
9/26/202297 Refugees Drown as Boat Sinks Off Syria’s Coast
9/25/2022Mysteries, legal challenges follow Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis’s migrant flights
9/25/2022The west’s cruelty to migrants will only grow more inhuman. Don’t let the nightmare peddlers win by Mohsin Hamid
9/24/2022In praise of activist lawyers
9/24/2022Congress members call for DOJ investigation
9/23/2022Vineyarders gather, reflect on experience with migrants
9/23/2022Why Ron DeSantis Thinks Weaponizing Asylum Seekers Is a Winning Strategy
9/22/2022Migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard have filed a lawsuit against Gov. DeSantis
9/21/2022Showing up for migrants who were pawns in a cruel gambit
9/20/2022Trolling Martha's Vineyard: Island residents on the receiving end of abuse over helping migrants
9/20/2022Criminal investigation launched into DeSantis asylum seeker flights
9/20/2022DeSantis actions on migrants is ‘mini-ethnic cleansing’, expert warns
9/19/2022Migrants at the Base: here's how they're set up and what comes next
9/19/2022Criminal Investigation Is Opened After Migrant Flights to Martha’s Vineyard
9/19/2022U.S. Policy in the Global South with Dr. Rigoberta Menchu Tum (Nobel Peace Prize) and Vincent Bevins a panel discussion at UMass Amherst
9/19/2022New model enlists regular Americans to resettle refugees
9/18/2022DeSantis hit with devastating news after his vile stunt
9/16/2022Let’s Call DeSantis’s Migrant Stunt What It Is—Kidnapping
9/16/2022‘Reverse Freedom Rides’: An echo of Martha’s Vineyard migrant flights 60 years ago
9/16/2022Migrants and Refugees are on the move
9/16/2022Venezuelan Migrants Look to Next Steps at Joint Base Cape Cod
9/16/2022Why were migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard? The political tactics behind the strategy.
9/15/2022DeSantis move to fly migrants to Mass. stokes confusion, outrage from critics
9/15/2022Busing migrants from the border is a blessing, not a punishment
9/14/2022Voices of migrants, from a New England island in a new land
9/14/2022Trafficking in human lives should have consequences for its Republican perpetrators
9/14/2022Brazilian asylum-seeker who died by suicide held in “horrific conditions,” attorneys say
9/1/2022‘Day by Day, I Realize I Have Freedom Here’ A group of Afghan employees from the Kabul bureau of the NY Times
8/12/2022The Photographs of the Border by Aviva Chomsky
8/11/2022The secret history of the U.S. government’s family-separation policy
8/7/2022L.A., Latinx Style: A Conversation Between Natalia Molina, Juan De Lara, George J. Sánchez, and Pierrette Hondagnew-Sotelo
8/5/2022No Walls, No Borders – a reading list
7/29/2022Mayor Bowser Requests D.C. National Guard to Support Migrants Being Bused Into Union Station
7/28/2022The Other Pandemic: A Photoessay by Al Rendon (53 migrants suffocated to death)
7/25/2022Remain In Mexico: Biden can end Trump-era policy, court rules
7/1/2022Remain In Mexico: Biden can end Trump-era policy, court rules
7/1/2022No, the 53 migrants who died in Texas didn't likely cross the border in that truck
6/29/2022No, the 53 migrants who died in Texas didn't likely cross the border in that truck
6/29/2022Review of Cuban Privilege: the Making of Immigrant Inequality on America
6/23/2022Special report: Interactive: The European approach to stopping Libya migration.
6/16/2022Solidarity is not a crime: support for the NGO ships
5/23/2022Solidarity is not a crime: support for the NGO ships
5/23/2022UNHRC: A record 100 million people forcibly displaced worldwide United Nations News Global perspective Human stories
5/23/2022UNHRC: A record 100 million people forcibly displaced worldwide United Nations News Global perspective Human stories
5/23/2022Martha’s Vineyard schools teaching ‘next generation of bilingual support’
4/12/2022Martha’s Vineyard schools teaching ‘next generation of bilingual support’
4/12/2022President Biden, tear down those walls and let immigrants take jobs in high demand
2/24/2022President Biden, tear down those walls and let immigrants take jobs in high demand
2/24/2022Waiting for Rain: Climate Change and Social Media in Rural Colombia
2/22/2022Waiting for Rain: Climate Change and Social Media in Rural Colombia
2/22/2022Historical society to preserve quilts dedicated to migrants who died crossing into Arizona
2/2/2022Historical society to preserve quilts dedicated to migrants who died crossing into Arizona
2/2/2022Married MacArthur ‘geniuses’ explore border policy and immigration
1/13/2022Married MacArthur ‘geniuses’ explore border policy and immigration
1/13/2022Attribution
The resource list was compiled by Lynn Ditchfield with contributions from:
- Anita Botti
- Cheri Cluff
- Michael Ditchfield**
- Victoria Dryfoos
- Camila Fernandez
- Justen Foster
- Shari Geistfeld**
- Linda Graham
- Marissa A. Gutierrez-Vicario
- Julie Huff**
- Naomi Ostwald Kawamura
- Jenik Munafo Khelalfa
- Roslyn Sue Le Mesurier
- Kendra Mills
- Vivian Maria Poey
- Nadia Sahila
- Jane Sampaio
- Guy Michel Telemanque
- Rachel Toon
- Others
* - especially informative content
** - special thanks
Funds to help support granted in part by:
- Mass Cultural Council (MVLCC)
- Martha’s Vineyard Vision Fellowship