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Bringing Hope to Women with Cancer in Haiti
Haiti’s Forgotten Health Crisis: Women’s Cancers
Anna Russell
2017 Reporting Fellow
June 23, 2017
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Outbreak: How Humans Are Driving the Rise of Diseases
Pathway to Peril
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July 14, 2017
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Alone and In Limbo: Child Refugees in Sweden
Seeking Asylum in Sweden: Who Are the Players?
Amy Russo
2017 Reporting Fellow
July 11, 2017
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Alone and In Limbo: Child Refugees in Sweden
Age, Asylum, and the Ticking Clock
Amy Russo
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July 10, 2017
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A Postcard Home
Germany Through a Young Migrant’s Eyes
Diana Markosian
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July 10, 2017
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A New Era in Cuban Migration
Panama Makes a Final Offer to Cuban Migrants: $1,650, a Plane Ticket, and Permission to Return
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September 26, 2017
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Chile's Vineyards: Grappling with Climate Change
Chile: Climate Change Affects Casablanca Vineyards
Taylor Lord
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July 6, 2017
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Qatar: Unpaid Wages, Workers Stranded
Ana P. Santos
2014 Persephone Miel Fellow
July 5, 2017
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The Missing Migrants: Families Search for Answers
Mexico: Struggle To Find Closure
Aaron Nelsen
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July 3, 2017
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A New Era in Cuban Migration
They Fled to Avoid Prosecution from a Web of Corruption That Is Part of Daily Life in Cuba
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September 30, 2017
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Qatari Laws Target Pregnant Migrant Workers
Ana P. Santos
2014 Persephone Miel Fellow
July 3, 2017
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Urbanization in the Developing World
My First Walk Through the Beichuan Ruins
Daniel Brook
Grantee
June 30, 2017
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![I was drawn to the Beichuan earthquake memorial because I knew it would be strange but I was not fully prepared for the level of mass tourism on the site. According to a local tourism official I spoke with, fully 3 million domestic tourists a year visit the site. Seeing so many middle-class vacationers in their trendy athleisure clothing with their cameras out walking through a destroyed city was jarring but it was fully intended. The local government hoped that disaster tourism would be a major economic…](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/06-21-17/beichuan_tourists.jpg.webp?h=5d8d1d0b&itok=2QlN3bFD "I was drawn to the Beichuan earthquake memorial because I knew it would be strange but I was not fully prepared for the level of mass tourism on the site. According to a local tourism official I spoke with, fully 3 million domestic tourists a year visit the site. Seeing so many middle-class vacationers in their trendy athleisure clothing with their cameras out walking through a destroyed city was jarring but it was fully intended. The local government hoped that disaster tourism would be a major economic development tool in the region. Despite the grand plans, however, most tourists visit the ruins as a day trip and stay in larger cities farther away or continue on into the mountains to visit Laojunshan National Park (aka "China's Yellowstone"). Image by Daniel Brook. China, 2015.")
