Call for Immigrant Writers and Immigrant Composers White Snake Projects is excited to announce the launch of a new program entitled SING OUT STRONG:...
ON MIGRATION | Sing Out Strong-Call for Immigrant Writers and Immigrant Composers
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Issues and Analysis
ON THE MEDIA | Myanmar’s press freedom mirage
Media freedom fell to new lows this month as a self-proclaimed anti-Rohingya supporter, American Rick Heizman, was welcomed with open arms in...
On the Media | Can The Correspondent “unbreak news” in the United States?
We’re not ‘breaking news,’ and we don’t want to be breaking news, because it’s part of making us cynical and divided and less informed about the...
ON IMMIGRATION | A dozen facts about immigration
This document provides a set of economic facts about the role of immigration in the U.S. economy, describing the patterns of recent immigration, the...
ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | Downward mobility: Where middle-class kids are worse off than their parents
[The economic pressures that trigger resistance to new immigrants] We hear a lot about upward mobility. But what goes up must come down. Source:...
ON MIGRATION | IRIN film takes top prize in the Migration Media Awards
IRIN’s 2017 film describing the squalid living conditions and abuse faced by migrants on the Serbia-Hungary border wins top video award. Source:...
ON THE MEDIA | Robert Greene’s ‘Bisbee ’17’ documentary revisits historic deportation
Documentary "Bisbee '17" looks to the past to understand today. ... artifice can be the most direct route to the truth. That’s especially the case...
Q&A: An Uncertain Future Ahead for Rohingya in Bangladesh
IPS Correspondent Tharanga Yakupitiyage talks to AMBASSADOR MASUD BIN MOMEN, permanent representative of Bangladesh to the U.N about the Rohingya'...
ON THE MEDIA | The Shrinking Space for Media Freedom in Uganda
Last month, a horrifying video circulated on social media in Uganda. It shows Reuters photographer, James Akena, surrounded by Uganda Peoples...
ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | Another global financial crisis for developing countries?
George Soros, Bill Gates and other pundits have been predicting another financial crisis. In their recent book, Revolution Required: The Ticking...
ON MIGRATION | Destination Europe: Unwelcome Homecoming
There’s a saying in Sierra Leone: “To try and fail is not a disgrace”. Except, it seems, if you’re a migrant who returns empty-handed...
ON IMMIGRATION | I came to America as a refugee. You took me just as I was.
Those who advocate abolishing a fundamental characteristic of U.S. immigration — welcoming the tired, the poor, the huddled masses— are neglecting...