Diaspora

After years of racial discrimination in Russia, this Korean Uzbek community finds peace in New York City

September 30, 2019

Under the Trump administration, new immigration policy restrictions may impact the 1,000-strong community of Korean Uzbeks in New York City, some of whom came to the US seeking reprieve from harassment and assault in Russia.

Refugees

What it’s like to become a US citizen after a lifetime of statelessness

PRI's The World

September 18, 2019

After 42 years as a stateless Rohingya refugee, one Chicago man became a US citizen this summer.

How Dorian's destruction is hurting the Bahamas' most vulnerable

PRI's The World

September 12, 2019

The climate crisis is now, says a professor born in the Bahamas, who argued in an essay this week that the disaster exposes existing inequality and hurts the most vulnerable populations.

Displacement

USC students work with refugees to engineer solutions for better camp life

PRI's The World

September 11, 2019

Omer Azizi spent much of the past year developing an app that he calls Safar, meaning “journey” in both Farsi and Arabic, to solve the information gap that exists for refugees worldwide. It came out of an assignment in a unique class he took last year from the engineering school at USC.

This new book confronts 'good immigrant' stereotypes, rethinks gratitude

PRI's The World

September 04, 2019

In her latest book, "The Ungrateful Refugee," Dina Nayeri reflects on her personal experience as a refugee to deconstruct some of the stereotypes about newcomers.

Ghana’s ‘Year of Return’ is emotional for descendents on both sides of the slave trade

PRI's The World

August 23, 2019

As two groups of people separated generations ago are reunited, they’re also confronting their differences.

Conflict

30 years later, the human chain that 'unshackled' the Baltic nations still matters

PRI's The World

August 22, 2019

The human chain paved the way to Baltic independence, and, on the eve of its 30th anniversary, offers inspiration for Hong Kong protesters.

Retracing a slave route in Ghana, 400 years later

Reuters

August 22, 2019

Aug. 25 marks 400 years since the first recorded enslaved Africans arrived in North America to work plantations in English colonies. In the centuries after, European slave traders shipped millions of African men, women and children across the Atlantic Ocean. This photo essay retraces some of the final steps Ghanaians would have taken in their homeland.

'Willful amnesia': How Africans forgot — and remembered — their role in the slave trade

PRI's The World

August 20, 2019

Ghana’s “Year of Return” is changing how the history of the slave trade is remembered in Africa.

Slavers in the family: What a castle in Accra reveals about Ghana's history

The Conversation

August 19, 2019

When Rachel Engmann visited Christiansborg Castle, she noted a water cistern in the courtyard inscribed with the name “Carl Gustav Engmann.” She sought to find out more.

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