By Jelena Kopanja, FI2W contributor MADRID, Spain — A little girl stood in tears amidst the crowd at a protest in front of an immigrant detention center in Madrid, Spain. She was wearing a white shirt with her father’s identification…
By Maibe González, FI2W contributor The flow of remittances between the Dominican Republic and the U.S. has undergone an interesting change recently, an apparent consequence of the economic recession that has affected many immigrant workers in the U.S. Remittances —…
By Aswini Anburajan, FI2W reporter Immigrant business owners have breathed new life into the North Shore of Staten Island, New York’s least populated and least diverse borough. Feet in 2 Worlds partnered with WNYC, New York public radio, to produce…
By Maibe Gonzalez Fuentes, FI2W contributor About 500 people, many of them immigrants, rallied today at Madison Square Park in Manhattan to call on the federal government to reform the immigration system and legalize the status of about 12 million…
By Pilar Marrero, La Opinión and FI2W reporter LOS ANGELES — Activists have a pet name for Hope for Homeowners (H4H), the government initiative that’s supposed to help struggling mortgage holders keep their homes: they call it “hoho”. “It’s a…
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor The White House keeps sending signals that President Barack Obama intends to follow through on his campaign promise to address immigration reform in his first year in office. As the president prepared for his…
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor With an historic recession casting its shadow on economic prospects around the world, the U.S. is not the only country where the immigration debate has become heated these days. Australia –a traditionally immigrant-friendly country–…
Sara Espinosa chose to sleep on the street rather than leave her 12-year-old son to spend the night alone at a men-only homeless shelter. As a consequence, Sara, her son and her two daughters have been sleeping in her car….
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor In New York and Los Angeles, the effects of the economic slowdown are hitting hard in one important sector of immigrant communities: small business owners. A fixture of many New York neighborhoods, the bodega,…
Nationally-syndicated radio show Latino USA featured one of FI2W reporter Martina Guzmán’s recent pieces this weekend. You can listen to it here: [audio:http://www.utexas.edu/coc/kut/latinousa/stationservices/podcast/2009/02/0206_01_lusa_podcast.mp3] From Latino USA‘s website: “The numbers are bad, and they just keep coming. Home Depot reports 7,000…