You are here: Homepage Tag migrant workers Articles Photo: Dario Lehner Pop culture | Turkey Protest songs from the car radio When screenwriter Cem Kaya reflects on his childhood, he remembers the long car journeys from Germany to Turkey - and the music of the “Aşiks”. On the travelling singers of Anatolia and their links to pop music by immigrant workers in Germany By Cem Kaya 12/15/2023 Xiang Peng, seven years old, is in first class. His parents work in Guangzhou, a journey of 24 hours and 16 minutes by train from their hometown of Wanzhou. In the last six years, they have seen each other six times, each time for five to seven days during Chinese New Year. Photo: Tami Xiang Family | China “Millions of children live apart from their parents” Chinese migrant workers are often denied official residency. Many parents leave their children behind in the villages. Photographer Tami Xiang visited some of them. A conversation Interview with Tami Xiang 11/25/2023 Diamnadio Island is located in the branching Saloum River delta in western Senegal. The effects of climate change are becoming ever more apparent here Foto: FAO / John Wessels Climate change | Senegal The island that’s left behind In the middle of the Saloum river delta in Senegal lies the island of Diamniadio. Here people live off the sea – but every year the nets get a little emptier By Gundula Haage 01/09/2023 Jasbir Singh in a greenhouse near Odemira Photo: Tilo Wagner Personal history | Portugal From engineer to fruit picker Born in the Indian city of Chandigarh, fruit picker Jasbir Singh, 34, has been picking berries in Alentejo for five years. Soon he could apply for Portuguese citizenship. A conversation Interview with Jasbir Singh 07/01/2022 Chefs Zhao Ansheng and her husband Niu Song during lunch break in their basement room near the northern Third Ring Road in Beijing. Photo: Sim Chi Yin Life underground | China “I asked, Where do you live?” In Beijing, some people on low incomes dwell in basements beneath the city. Photographer Sim Chi Yin depicted them in her photo series “The Rat Tribe”. A conversation Interview with Sim Chi Yin 01/07/2022 Short fiction | Life underground In the stomach of the city A man from the countryside starts a new life in the tunnels beneath an Indian metropolis. A story. By Shumona Sinha 01/07/2022 Illustration: Gosia Herba The new Poland The tightrope walk Since the annexation of Crimea, increasing numbers of Ukrainians are moving to Poland. For the government this means it has to deal with immigration issues for the first time. By Olena Babakova 07/01/2021
Photo: Dario Lehner Pop culture | Turkey Protest songs from the car radio When screenwriter Cem Kaya reflects on his childhood, he remembers the long car journeys from Germany to Turkey - and the music of the “Aşiks”. On the travelling singers of Anatolia and their links to pop music by immigrant workers in Germany By Cem Kaya 12/15/2023
Xiang Peng, seven years old, is in first class. His parents work in Guangzhou, a journey of 24 hours and 16 minutes by train from their hometown of Wanzhou. In the last six years, they have seen each other six times, each time for five to seven days during Chinese New Year. Photo: Tami Xiang Family | China “Millions of children live apart from their parents” Chinese migrant workers are often denied official residency. Many parents leave their children behind in the villages. Photographer Tami Xiang visited some of them. A conversation Interview with Tami Xiang 11/25/2023
Diamnadio Island is located in the branching Saloum River delta in western Senegal. The effects of climate change are becoming ever more apparent here Foto: FAO / John Wessels Climate change | Senegal The island that’s left behind In the middle of the Saloum river delta in Senegal lies the island of Diamniadio. Here people live off the sea – but every year the nets get a little emptier By Gundula Haage 01/09/2023
Jasbir Singh in a greenhouse near Odemira Photo: Tilo Wagner Personal history | Portugal From engineer to fruit picker Born in the Indian city of Chandigarh, fruit picker Jasbir Singh, 34, has been picking berries in Alentejo for five years. Soon he could apply for Portuguese citizenship. A conversation Interview with Jasbir Singh 07/01/2022
Chefs Zhao Ansheng and her husband Niu Song during lunch break in their basement room near the northern Third Ring Road in Beijing. Photo: Sim Chi Yin Life underground | China “I asked, Where do you live?” In Beijing, some people on low incomes dwell in basements beneath the city. Photographer Sim Chi Yin depicted them in her photo series “The Rat Tribe”. A conversation Interview with Sim Chi Yin 01/07/2022
Short fiction | Life underground In the stomach of the city A man from the countryside starts a new life in the tunnels beneath an Indian metropolis. A story. By Shumona Sinha 01/07/2022
Illustration: Gosia Herba The new Poland The tightrope walk Since the annexation of Crimea, increasing numbers of Ukrainians are moving to Poland. For the government this means it has to deal with immigration issues for the first time. By Olena Babakova 07/01/2021
