Stories
On the Road During a Time of War: Migrant Journeys through a Wary Europe
Anthropology Now (print edition)
Many Middle Eastern and African migrants pass through three emotional stages: trepidation before the dangerous journey; joy after safe arrival; and then, all too often, disillusionment.
Her Road From Damascus
Anthropology Now (digital edition)
How Raghad Alhallak and her family sold their home and bakery, scaled a mountain, fought off wild dogs, evaded border guards and nearly drowned at sea -- before being welcomed in Germany
Hordes at the Gates? Look Again
The Huffington Post/The WorldPost
The images of crazed migrant hordes bursting through the checkpoints of Fortress Europe make for great TV -- but leave the wrong impression. This is mainly a movement ordinary people, forced by war and poverty into taking extraordinary chances.
Burying Minority Istanbul: Last Glimpses of the Cosmopolitan City
Anthropology Now (digital edition)
A Black Sea family had boldly extended its living quarters into an ethnic Greek cemetery. I wasn't sure what upset me more: the desecration, or the historical wrong.
Tea on the Balcony
Worldpress
I planned a sybaritic summer in a Turkish village by the sea. I didn't consider that I might have trouble fitting in.
Crossing Switzerland's St. Gotthard Divide
Worldpress
The railroad that bridged German and Italian Switzerland was meant to unify the nation. Up close, the story looked a little different.
Myth of the Empty Frontier
The San Francisco Chronicle
Explorers' diseases wiped out native populations long before settlers arrived
Deferred Futures
The San Francisco Chronicle
Why young adults can't hang on to what they earn
Peso Power
Institutional Investor
Driven by yield fever, foreign investors are snapping up Latin American bonds denominated in local currencies. It's a great deal--while it lasts.
Return to the Belle Epoque
Islands
On an island off the coast of Istanbul, one man pursues a vision of the past
Latin America 2007
Global Finance
Prominent thinkers, financiers and corporate leaders peer into the future and bet on the investment climate 10 years from now
Dancing with the Bear
Global Finance
Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and she can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop.
Back to Work
Mamm
Most women return, and many also make time for play
Letting Go
Risk
The currency band, once praised as a sound middle ground between volatile free-floating money and unpatriotic dollarisation, has fallen out of fashion in Latin America.
Trade Warrior
Working Woman
Increasing exports is an uphill battle
Crime Comes Down Hard on Caracas as High Life Ends
The Associated Press/The Miami Herald
A story that Venezuelans tell on their Colombian neighbors is coming true at home
How - and Why - the U.S. Saved the Peso in '94
The San Francisco Chronicle
One of Mexico's most prominent political scientists examines the bailout
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