The increased presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and the fear of detention and deportation have had chilling impact on access to care.
A recent decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals will make things more difficult for women making claims of gender-based persecution.
Limited protections and deportation fears will encourage more abuse of domestic workers, organizers say
A network of 47 midwives across Mexico is stepping in to provide essential prenatal care to pregnant migrants along their journey north.
It’s no coincidence that states with the most immigrants and migrants passing through their borders, like Texas and Florida, now have the harshest laws in the country.
After some very promising campaign pledges, activists are giving the administration mixed reviews on immigration.
Russia is at war with Ukraine, displacing millions of women and children, and the experience has brought my grandmother’s trauma to the fore in my own family.
Activists are pushing the Biden administration to do more than “undo the damage” caused by Trump.
In spite of the high mortality rate, large numbers of refugees are still continuing to cross. And for pregnant women, the road to Europe is all the more perilous.
Use our climate map to investigate the impact of climate change across the world on those it affects most: women, people of color, and indigenous and LGBTQ people.
The need for more realistic and powerful narratives about Black Australian life was a big reason why Haj decided to study film.
Activist Erika Andiola discusses how this response avoids fundamental change, and how a Biden/Harris administration can send the right message on immigration.
The crises that compel refugees to attempt the dangerous journey to Europe haven't ended. Many, including pregnant women, continue to risk drowning, meeting violent pushbacks at sea and land borders, living in unsafe conditions in the camps, and facing racist violence and discrimination.
Our reclaimed pride in indigenous heritage is an opportunity for Latin American immigrants and U.S. First People to work as allies.
Reporters are experiencing trauma from covering ICE’s treatment of immigrants. But who's talking about it?
While Greece has slowly begun to reopen, overcrowded refugee camps on the Greek island of Lesbos are still under lockdown. And without government intervention, experts and activists say that residents there are just sitting ducks waiting for an outbreak of the coronavirus to sweep through the camps like wildfire.
Now that the UK has officially left the EU, the government has decided to overhaul its immigration system, and women are about to become the big losers in the process.
The CAA’s language grants a legal path to citizenship for only some "persecuted minorities." Muslims, as well as groups like Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka, Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, and Buddhist refugees from Tibet, are all left out.
iI’s been a troublesome week filled with reports that migrants and refugees being held in U.S. detention are being refused medical care they desperately need.
Human rights advocates are decrying the Trump administration's policy of requiring asylum seekers to stay in Mexico for the duration of their immigration proceedings.
The Department of Homeland Security is targeting workers it should be protecting, as recent ICE raids shine a spotlight on exploitative conditions at poultry farms.
As Venezuela spirals from rampant hyperinflation and violent political clashes, a health crisis has stricken the South American country, it’s the most vulnerable migrants—children, babies and pregnant women—who are being hit the hardest.
Camila is the second trans woman reported killed in El Salvador just this month; in fact, she immigrated to the U.S. in the first place because she had received threat. Camila’s murder highlights the deadly impact of American immigration policies on vulnerable populations, especially women and LGTBQ people who migrated to the United States seeking safety.
On January 23, the New York State legislature passed the Jose Peralta Dream Act. This act is a significant win for immigrant rights in the realm of higher education, as it makes an estimated 146,000 DREAMers, or minors brought to the country by their undocumented parents, who attend New York public schools eligible for scholarships and financial aid that was previously unavailable to them.
The deadline is approaching for public comment on the administration's latest proposal, which is already having a damaging impact on immigrants.
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