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Asylum

Nairobi city skyline at dusk, the city Esther Kisaghu fled and later returned to transform

The Visa That Was Really a Door: How Esther Kisaghu's Escape to Boston Reframes Why Kenyan Women Migrate

She left Nairobi for a Boston classroom to survive her own marriage. Back home, Esther Kisaghu wants migration policy to name what really drives many women abroad.

4 days ago5 min

Travellers wait with luggage inside the departure hall of an East African international airport terminal.

World

The Layover With No Return: How Washington's Deportation Detour Through Ghana Reached an African Court

Lawyers have hauled Ghana before West Africa's top court over Africans the United States expelled to a country none of them called home. For the diaspora, it reads like a warning.

11 days ago6 min

The hemicycle of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, where new EU migration and return rules were approved.

World

The Waiting Room at the Edge of Europe: Why Kenya Is Being Eyed as the Continent's Deportation Address

15 days ago5 min

The hemicycle of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, where lawmakers approved the bloc's tougher migrant return rules.

Politics

The Country Europe Wants to Borrow: Why Kenya Has Become a Candidate to Hold the Migrants the EU Sends Away

15 days ago5 min