Migration

Editor's letter

Maps, myths and migrants
Anouk Ride rejects the ugliness of xenophobia and argues that migrants change society for the better.

If migratory birds behaved like people...

Northern exposure
Elaine Eliah talks to Africans who went to, saw, then rejected the West.

Maid in the US
Mexican women cross the border but they cannot traverse California's rich-poor divide, explains Doreen Mattingly.

Golden promises
Andrew Kilvert reports on how the Indonesian Government has stuck migrants in the middle of its war with the indigenous people of West Papua.

THE FACTS - Migration

No place like home
Canada's multiculturalism, Neil Bissoondath discovers, has left a nation of immigrants searching for its soul.

Set me free...
Trafficked women speak of their horror and their hope, writes Siriporn Skrobanek from Thailand.

A hypocritical host
Penny Hartill argues that the economics of New Zealand's immigration policy has failed to deliver the goods.

Migration: a journey through time

Turning the tide
The global wave of anti-immigration and racism may stop at Spain's shores, says Ali Qassim.

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Letters
Letter from Mongolia
Update
The NI Interview with Asaf Durakovic
Reviews: plus Ariel Dorfman classic
NI Crossword
Endpiece: by Richard Swift
Country profile: Trinidad & Tobago