Business, Economics and Jobs
PRI's The World
December 06, 2016
An incentive from the Israeli government offers money and free flights to African asylum seekers, if they agree to return to Africa. But, there's a problem with this immigration policy: some African men instead use the money to try to get to Europe, leaving their families behind.
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Conflict & Justice
A migrant from El Salvador gets her chance in immigration court
PRI's The World
November 22, 2016
Most Central American migrants who cross with their children are not given asylum and the right to stay legally in the US. This mother says the consequence of the judge’s decision isn’t just documents, though. It’s life or death.
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Business, Economics and Jobs
A program that pays African migrants to leave Israel is breaking up families
PRI's The World
December 06, 2016
An incentive from the Israeli government offers money and free flights to African asylum seekers, if they agree to return to Africa. But, there's a problem with this immigration policy: some African men instead use the money to try to get to Europe, leaving their families behind.
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Conflict & Justice
A gay Russian gets asylum and a new life in the US
PRI's The World
February 17, 2014
The Winter Olympics has put a spotlight on Russia's anti-LGBT laws and practices. One gay Russian decided he had seen enough when new laws were passed this summer, so he took the risky course of entering the US illegally to seek asylum.
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Conflict & Justice
A day in the life of immigration limbo
PRI's The World
October 18, 2016
Day after anxious day, a mother who escaped gang violence with her children in El Salvador waits in Boston to know whether she and her family can stay in the US legally or not.
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Politics
The courts called him a terrorist, but one judge and several politicians want him to be able to stay in the US
PRI's The World
August 02, 2017
Depending on whom you ask, Malachy McAllister is either an Irish terrorist or a persecuted asylum seeker. Either way, he’s been facing deportation for 10 years.
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Conflict & Justice
Some Iraqi refugees who made it to Europe are choosing to return home
PRI's The World
April 21, 2016
“I was expecting a comfortable life and that they would provide us with help. But it was so difficult.”
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Business, Economics and Jobs
Why Haitians are stranded in Mexico
PRI's The World
October 20, 2016
A crisis is building at the US-Mexico border as thousands of Haitians make their way there from Brazil, migrating as the South American country's economy tanks.
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Business, Economics and Jobs
In a small Texas town, a new private detention center for transgender migrants brings jobs — and concerns
PRI's The World
January 13, 2017
In Texas, a new immigration detention facility will house only transgender migrants. The hitch is, the last time they tried this, the contract was not renewed because of abuses.
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Conflict & Justice
US law students, driven by their own family stories, are helping asylum-seekers
PRI's The World
April 20, 2017
At the University of California, Davis, law students take on immigrant cases, with guidance, and double as cultural navigators too.
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Conflict & Justice
A teen who escaped Syria waits for a future in the US
PRI's The World
November 26, 2013
19-year-old Fouad Faris fled his hometown of Aleppo, Syria, a year ago and moved in with his aunt and uncle in Shrewsbury, MA. He left behind bombs and tear gas, but also education, friends and family. For the past seven months, he's been waiting for asylum and a chance to restart his life.