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Nissa RheeNovember 8, 2024
Borderless Wins National Journalistic Impact Award
The nonprofit news outlet’s investigations into Chicago migrant shelters were recognized at the 2024 LION Awards.
Nissa RheeSeptember 12, 2024
Investigation: Chicago Ignored Dozens of Warnings of Migrant Shelter Conditions Before Child’s Death
Investigation: Chicago Ignored Dozens of Warnings of Migrant Shelter Conditions Before Child’s Death
Despite warnings, numerous hospitalizations and dozens of reports, Chicago officials continuously funneled thousands of migrants into an industrial warehouse that was never meant to house people.
Investigation: Migrants Describe Inhumane Conditions at Chicago’s Largest Shelter
Just days after Illinois Gov. Pritzker shut down a proposed shelter due to health concerns, Venezuelan migrants living in the Pilsen shelter say they are being treated “like dogs.’’
Introducing Borderless Magazine’s Field Canvasser Playbook
A guide to using community organizing techniques to bring journalists closer to their audiences
Nissa RheeMarch 14, 2023
We’re Building an Anti-Racist News Industry
Borderless Magazine is mentoring and training a new generation of journalists from immigrant communities to combat racist coverage.
Nissa RheeMarch 29, 2022
El arte y el medio ambiente se encuentran en un nuevo plan de estudios
Los artistas y educadores de Chicago detrás del programa “lo pequeño es todo” (“small is all”) hablan sobre lo que los lleva a vivir en la ciudad.
Nissa RheeDecember 13, 2021
Art and Environment Meet in New Curriculum
The Chicago artists and educators behind the “small is all" program talk about what grounds them in the city.
Nissa RheeDecember 1, 2021
Illinois pondrá fin a la detención de inmigrantes con un nuevo proyecto de ley
El gobernador de Illinois, JB Pritzker, firmó hoy la ley Illinois Way Forward Act, que pondrá fin a la detención de inmigrantes en el estado en 2022 y ampliará las protecciones para las comunidades de inmigrantes.
Nissa RheeAugust 6, 2021
Illinois To End Immigrant Detention with New Bill
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Illinois Way Forward Act today, which will end immigrant detention in the state in 2022 and expand protections for immigrant communities.
Nissa RheeAugust 2, 2021
How to Get Help Voting in Illinois
Wondering how to register to vote? How to vote by mail? ¿Quieres saber cómo registrarte para votar? ¿Cómo votar por correo?
A People’s Guide to Fighting Racism
Six Black and Latinx community leaders share what we need to do to address structural racism.
New ban and challenges for immigrants during COVID-19
Immigration advocate Fred Tsao reacts to Trump's new immigration ban and shares his hopes for a better future.
Nissa RheeApril 22, 2020
Locked Up With COVID-19
How the coronavirus pandemic is straining immigration court and detention systems in the Midwest.
Nissa RheeApril 15, 2020
Why 16.7 million people were left out of the COVID-19 stimulus plan
Author Daniel Denvir on the “bipartisan war on immigrants” and how it’s falling apart.
Nissa RheeApril 8, 2020
Young, African and refugee
After fleeing conflict, young Africans who come to Chicago find themselves navigating a city struggling with racism, inequity and violence. Here are three of their stories.
“Every dream I have is that he will be here with me”
For one Chicago teacher, Trump’s Travel Ban has meant living a continent away from her Syrian husband.
Nissa RheeFebruary 19, 2020
Chicago show brings immigrant stories, journeys to centerstage
Nestor Gomez’s storytelling showcase 80 Minutes Around the World focuses on the personal in a time of competing narratives about immigration.
Nissa RheeJanuary 22, 2020
Borderless Magazine’s best stories of 2019
Executive director Nissa Rhee shares some of her favorite stories of the year.
Nissa RheeDecember 31, 2019
‘This is an abolitionist struggle’
Two local organizers tell Borderless Magazine just what’s at stake with keeping migrant children shelters open in Chicago.
Funding cuts under Trump are forcing clinics and organizations that serve refugees to close
After fleeing war, many refugees who come to Chicago face new traumas in a city that had nearly 3,000 shooting victims last year. But the health services that once existed to support them are now being gutted.
Nissa RheeNovember 20, 2019
Asylum seeking mother and son find a new home
Kristel and Mario fled violence in Honduras only to be separated from each other and detained for 5 months. Now, they are starting over.
Nissa RheeFebruary 21, 2019
Khaled Hosseini on why we need to hear refugee stories now
Before he became the best-selling author author of “The Kite Runner,” Khaled Hosseini was an asylum seeker.
Nissa RheeNovember 6, 2018
Light skin, blue eyes and born in Mexico: An artist shares what life is like with two nationalities
Natalie González is a Mexico-based artist and illustrator.
Nissa RheeSeptember 20, 2018
An organizer challenges the way we think about — and police — immigration today
Tania Unzueta is a fierce advocate for the rights of undocumented immigrants around the country.
Nissa RheeSeptember 19, 2018
Little Village speaks out: How the police gang database is impacting their community
Residents share their experiences with racial profiling and police brutality in Chicago.
Nissa RheeSeptember 19, 2018
A Little Village leader on neighborhood resilience and innovation
Fanny Diego-Alvarez was born in the state of Guerrero in Mexico and moved with her family to Little Village when she was six years old.
Nissa RheeSeptember 19, 2018
Viento: Running in Little Village
The running group has been bringing Mexican-American residents together for six years.
A health advocate talks about growing up in Little Village and her memories of crossing the border as a child
Jimena Martinez migrated to the United States with her parents and two siblings when she was five years old.
Nissa RheeJuly 31, 2018
A night of immigration stories
Forty people braved a snowstorm on Monday, February 5, to attend Borderless’ night of immigrant stories at the Oak Park Public Library.
Nissa RheeMarch 1, 2018
Abdulghany and Mufaddal Hamadeh
Just 11 months apart in age, brothers Mufaddal and Abdulghany Hamadeh have shared almost everything in their lives — including their love of the two countries they call home.
Nissa RheeOctober 25, 2017
Osama Alomar: The whole world is fighting
The novelist on Syria, censorship, and the safety — and power — of metaphor.
Nissa RheeJune 13, 2017
Aram Han Sifuentes on citizenship and resistance
After living in the United States for 25 years, Aram Han Sifuentes applied to be a citizen this week.
Nissa RheeMay 11, 2017
Mahdia Lynn on creating a feminist and LGBTQ-affirming mosque
Masjid al-Rabia mosque held its first service less than a month after the election of President Trump and has found itself the target of both anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT groups.
Nissa RheeMarch 2, 2017
Malak Afaneh on Islamic feminism and American patriotism
Seventeen-year-old Malak Afaneh was learning about Rosie the Riveter in a class at her high school in Chicago when an idea struck her: What if Rosie was Muslim?
Nissa RheeFebruary 28, 2017
Jamie Friedland on the Movement to Help Those Caught in the Muslim Ban
Jamie Friedland answered a call for legal help at O’Hare International Airport January 28, the day after the immigration ban began.
Nissa RheeFebruary 15, 2017
