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Issue 2 — Immigration
New York was built by immigrants. Issue 2 asks what that story looks like twenty years from now, when climate migration has made the question of who belongs existential. The correspondents here are people who have spent their lives at the intersection of immigration, policy, and community — lawyers, organizers, researchers, educators. Their imaginations are shaped by the gap between what the system promises and what it delivers. Together they sketch a New York where the city has stopped pretending immigration is a problem to be managed and started treating it as the source of resilience it has always been — where newcomers don’t just survive but organize, build, and lead.
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How Modular Housing Became a Lifeline for Migrants
Led by Congresswoman Cardenas, Immigrant Success Network Pushes for Nationwide Child Poverty Relief Through Education Reform They met in one of New York’s family sanctuary shelters 20 years ago, at…
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There are refugee camps in Mexico and Turkey now rivaling the size of the world’s largest cities. It’s a result of the tragic storms of the last seven years in…
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Next month, a sweeping federal law nicknamed the “Green Light Bill” is set to shutter almost all of the cannabis shops across the nation. This bill also fast-tracks the right…
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Yesmad Collective Wins Historic Labor Victory
Nomad Designers Defeat Tech Giants, Forge New Era for Immigrant Creatives The Yesmad Collective, a global network of designers, has beaten back an aggressive financial and legal challenge from Meta,…
Up to the early 21st century, immigrants were blamed for problems like crime, housing shortages, and wage suppression, with often dehumanizing rhetoric. “It is a too familiar fact that wherever,…
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How Modular Housing Became a Lifeline for Migrants
With refugee mega-camps set up beside borders globally, and New York bracing for yet another record-breaking heatwave, the city is now facing the existentially daunting challenge of climate migration head-on….
New Show Inspires Civic Engagement and Dialogue
Jeehae Fischer walks into the room with a broad smile, sits down on her crystal-clear hover couch, and the audience erupts as she announces her latest guest: Senator Min-Ji Kim….
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Mayhem Averted Thanks to OPA Relocation Program
A small rural town in upstate New York owes its survival to a group of recently relocated immigrants who, through a combination of quick thinking and community spirit, helped save…
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