Borders
Capturing what life is really like at Mexico’s border with the USA
Border Documents — Across four years, Arturo Soto photographed life in Juárez, the city of his father’s youth, to create a portrait of urban and societal change, memory, and fluid national identity.
Written by: Miss Rosen
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 the effects of war on life along the Polish-Ukrainian border
Photographer Tommy Sussex captures the anxieties and fragile sense of peace for local people along Poland’s border with Ukraine and Belarus.
Written by: Alex King
Why we should abolish the world’s borders
The case for abolition — In Against Borders: The Case For Abolition, writers Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke de Noronha take on the callousness of borders, arguing for a world beyond them.
Written by: Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke de Noronha
The government's arms fair is endangering fleeing Ukrainians
Borders kill — The Home Office claims to want to support people displaced by war, but is at the same time hosting a shadowy arms fair to help arms companies sell their deadly wares to stop people crossing borders.
Written by: Mary Atkinson
Inside the anti-capitalist, anti-border micronation
Welcome to Obsidia — Founded in 2015, Obsidia is the world’s only portable, feminist, self-declared territorial entity. More than just a playful venture, the nation is offering a means to explore alternative modes of political organisation.
Written by: Chloé Meley
The Borders Bill will endanger those it claims to protect
The fight ahead — While the Tories claim that their authoritarian Bill will create a fairer system, in reality, it’ll only serve to harm the most marginalised and vulnerable, writes Leah Cowan.
Written by: Leah Cowan
The photographer capturing five years of the refugee crisis
A dream of Europe — Since Spring 2015, Jacob Ehrbahn has been documenting the worst refugee crisis in recent history. He is determined to make sure the issue, which is still devastating lives, does not fade from public attention.
Written by: Huck
I was one of the Stansted 15 – our fight isn’t over
#EndDeportation — The Stansted 15 won their appeal. But the fight to end the hostile environment remains ongoing.
Written by: Emma Hughes
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
The new exhibition giving refugees in the UK a voice
Breaking barriers — Belonging, an exhibition by the country’s leading refugee employment charity Breaking Barriers, celebrates the passions and pilgrimages of migrants in the UK.
Written by: Bex Shorunke
The travel guide for undocumented immigrants trying to enter the USA
A different type of travel guide — Cuban photojournalist Lisette Poole spent 48 days documenting the journey of two Cuban women migrating to the United States. Now, Marta and Liset's story of resilience becomes an unlikely travel guide.
Written by: Biju Belinky
