Border
Meet the Kumeyaay, the indigenous peoples split by the US-Mexico border wall
A growing divide — In northwestern Mexico and parts of Arizona and California, the communities have faced isolation and economic struggles as physical barriers have risen in their ancestral lands. Now, elders are fighting to preserve their language and culture.
Written by: Alicia Fàbregas
Documenting life on the US/Mexico border
Between 1983-1987 — With his gripping photographs, taken during the 1980s, Ken Light wanted to reveal ‘the desperation, hardship, and struggle of people who want a better life’.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Young Mexican-Americans talk Trump, the wall, and uncertain futures
Life on the border — Donald Trump is leading the Republican Party charge to the White House. Just yesterday he visited Mexico City, reaffirming his vow to build a wall along their shared border, paid for, his insists, by Mexico. The rhetoric might grab headlines, but how do young Mexican-Americans living on the border feel about the world they know changing? Photojournalist and professor Adriana Yvette Monsalve asked her students to find out.
Written by: Adriana Yvette Monsalve
The last days of the Calais Jungle’s refugee restaurants
Demolishing the human spirit — French authorities to rule on demolishing the Jungle’s self-built restaurants that provide food, support and shelter to refugees.
Written by: Nancy Dent
Fourteen days on the refugee trail from Kos to Vienna
Europe’s Border Crisis: The Long Road — Over two weeks, documentary photographer and filmmaker Adam Patterson travelled with refugees making the harrowing journey across Europe to shoot a powerful new documentary.
Written by: Alex King
Drug lords and the vigilantes fighting them; the true story of organised crime in Mexico
Meth, bullets and borders — Cartel Land profiles two vigilante movements who took up arms against drug cartels on opposite sides of the US-Mexico border, and asks what would you do in their shoes?
Written by: Alex King
Life inside the Calais Jungle refugee camp
24 hours in Calais — Huge public pressure has forced European governments to respond to the global refugee crisis. But for the three thousand people living in deplorable conditions in The Jungle, relief is a long way off.
Written by: Alex King
