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The stranger who started an epidemic

New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.

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Social isolation and the search for sanctuary

Threatened with deportation, Furaha Asani turned to her church for support. Met with silence and disinterest, she walked away, but argues that churches should do much more for migrants.

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Drug sharing in desperate times

When Nicole was threatened with deportation, her mental health deteriorated. Now without a job, a passport or a doctor, she depends on others to send her their leftover anxiety drugs.

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Doctor in the house

A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.

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  • A British family is gloomily watching a procession of German immigrants practising their trades in Great Britain. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 2 October 1886.
  • Tiles painted with places familiar to Tunisian visitors and immigrants to France. Colour lithograph by A. Bellavita for the Féderation des Tunisiens pour une Citoyenneté des Deux Rives.
  • A well-dressed black couple in New York City are being offered a coat by a poor Irish immigrant outside a laundry. Coloured lithograph.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 10, Immigration / Immunity.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 10, Immigration / Immunity.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 10, Immigration / Immunity.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 10, Immigration / Immunity.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 10, Immigration / Immunity.
  • Your rights in the AIDS era. 10, Immigration / Immunity.
  • Irish emigrants in America: a woman with two children, and a man sitting outside an inn smoking a pipe. Coloured etching after William Heath.
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