John Washington

@jbwashing

•journalist/translator •writing •editing •The Dispossessed—book on asylum, •tips johnbwashington@gmail.com

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Menyertai Mei 2013
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    16 Mac

    Crisis upon crisis, we need to both break news and step back, plumb history and try to offer a "deep, saving thought," as Aeschylus once put it. That's what I tried to do with my book on asylum. Out May 5, from Initial blurbs on my site:

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    26 Mei

    Some good news from : same-sex couples in Costa Rica can now get married after a ban was officially lifted after being ruled unconstitutional 18 months ago

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  3. 26 Mei

    Deeply unsettling and creative cruelty out of Fortress Europe.

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    More images published by this morning: a floating deportation camp.
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  4. 25 Mei

    Agog from a moving review, and to be even remotely positioned in relation to Orwell in "...reminiscent of Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia: firmly grounded storytelling charged with the clarity of social and historical analysis." Thank you

    I reviewed 's totally devastating, beautifully written, absolute powerhouse of a new book —✨THE DISPOSSESSED, out now from ✨— for .
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  5. 23 Mei

    And in a disturbing but important read, along with , a report on how in the Salvadoran justice system, "in cases of rape of children under 15, a judge can absolve the accused even if it’s proved that they committed the crime."

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  6. 23 Mei

    In a column, reveals the extremely troubling culture of trivialization of violence against women in Central America and Mexico. "Home quarantine has been truly dangerous for many women."

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  7. 23 Mei

    The first, reporting with , uncovers the state's dangerous non-response to a spike in violence against women. There are recorded 21 femicides in El Salvador just since the start of the quarantine, on March 21.

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  8. 23 Mei

    This week's newsletter from , on the rise of gender-based discrimination and violence during the pandemic, features three hard-hitting articles from one of the best journalists in Central America,

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    22 Mei

    "After almost half a century of sweeping, mopping, dusting, washing, and cooking in other people's homes, her current income is zero dollars." on the heavy toll the pandemic is taking on domestic workers in El Salvador.

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  10. 22 Mei

    “You cannot do wrong to achieve right,” warned Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero. founder reflecting on and putting into necessary context the horrific recent photos out of El Salvador's prisons. read it at

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  11. 22 Mei

    A devastating story about savage medical racism--and such damn good journalism from . Take the time to read this story.

    One of the clearest ways to trace health disparities is by looking at amputations from diabetes: across the country, black patients are three times more likely to lose their limbs. The rates are worse in the South. I went to Mississippi for .
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  12. 21 Mei

    The latest in the Migrant Voices series for Letters from inside immigration detention in the time of COVID-19.

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    "My journey from Ecuador to the United States is an experience I wouldn’t wish my worst enemy to undergo." Giscard, a refugee from Cameroon, describes the deadly, horrifying process of getting to this country
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  13. 21 Mei

    Sign up to our newsletter to receive the rest of this week's stories, covering violence against women in Central America. Troubling, but necessary reading.

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  14. 21 Mei

    The first of a series of articles for about the particular challenges, and deadly violence, women face in Central America. on the disturbing uptick of femicides (21 since March) in El Salvador during the national quarantine.

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  15. 20 Mei

    Join me today, 4pm EST, to discuss my new book, The Dispossessed, as well as the history and current politics of asylum. with , and others from 's .

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  16. 19 Mei

    "From November 2019 through March 16, 2020, only 20 of the 939 people transferred to Guatemala under the ACA had applied for asylum despite that many more of them were likely to have well-founded fears of persecution in their home countries."

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  17. 19 Mei

    "Transferees, including small children, waited hours on the tarmac with no food, water, or adequate medical attention. The actual registration itself took 2-to-3 minutes, during which transferees weren't provided any information regarding what will happen to them in Guatemala."

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  18. 19 Mei

    A Salvadoran man said that a U.S. DHS official told him “there is no asylum” and “there are no Central Americans allowed into the United States.” Critical report from on dangerous monstrosity of the asylum cooperation agreement w/ Gautemala.

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  19. 18 Mei

    on his fears from COVID-19: "What I think awaits me now is nothing but death if something is not done to get me out of this place in a not too distant future."

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  20. 18 Mei

    Giscard also writes one of the most articulate and detailed 1st-hand accounts of the increasingly traveled Africa-to-US routes, from Ecuador, by sea in dinghy, up through the Darién Gap, and thru Central America and Mexico.

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  21. 18 Mei

    "When I first entered the United States I was given a hamburger with particles of rocks dressed in the middle. From the first bite I then realized where I was and what awaits me."

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