Global Nation

Immigrant researchers and professors must often take low-paid "survival jobs" in the US. At Brooklyn's summer Open Air University, they're sharing their niche expertise.

Therese Patricia Okoumou has scaled public monuments, including the Statue of Liberty, to bring attention to the detention of undocumented immigrant children.

Only 40 percent of nurses trained abroad pass the US licensing exam the first time. But educators say it’s not because they aren’t qualified.

The White House’s immigration policy targets people in the criminal justice system — whether or not they are convicted of crimes — and will likely most affect refugees and immigrants from Muslim-majority countries. Many of the members of African Communities Together are part of all of those groups.

A photo of three pioneering women doctors has been circulating in social media -- but they're not wearing white lab coats. They're wearing culturally significant dress and they represent the first women doctors from their countries, back in the 1800s.

Their day in court? That is less the case for some detained immigrants in the New York area, at least for those hoping for proceedings conducted in person.

Advocates say the state is turning a blind eye to violations of state law by allowing the Berks County Residential Center to remain in operation.

The Philippines is the last country in the world that does not allow divorce.

Garífuna people escaped violence to join relatives in the South Bronx. And now, they say, being shackled is humiliating.

Millions of people in the US live their lives in limbo, under the “supervision” of federal agents and the uncertainty of whether they will be deported. One New York couple is asking: When can we have children?