With more than 1.7 million people of foreign birth living in Illinois, no issue except for immigration reform seems as critical as who gets counted and what the census will tell us about our immigrant communities.

For Hala, it’s comforting to know the future. Just a few years ago, in 2006, it would have been difficult to predict the next hour.

Bhutan is a traditionally Buddhist, peace-upholding nation. That such atrocities can take place there, displacing tens of thousands of people, raises questions about the nature of peacekeeping and of “getting along.”

[A lot of] people are dying trying to reach Europe,” Jones says. “This is the real risk people are taking…and a lot of times, they face a prison sentence as soon as they arrive.”

After three months of working as a potsticker cutter at Super H Mart, a popular Korean supermarket in Niles, this was Doug Lee’s last day of work and, for him, possibly the last time he would need to speak Korean.

Statelessness affects about 15 million people. Some populations are well known, like the Palestinians and the Roma. Others, less so, like the Rohingya population of Burma.

[read the story in Spanish as published in Extra] Crusaders will soon descend upon the community of Little Village, armed…

“I was in the airplane. I saw Baghdad under the airplane…. at this time I said to myself, it’s real,” Fatima Al-Rawi said. “And at that time I was crying.”

Alberto Alves crossed on foot. The goal was the same: to flee Portugal’s misery and Salazar’s dictatorship to look for a better future in France.