Language & Peoples

Between silence and belonging

The struggle of Kosovo’s Ashkali community to name themselves in a country that rarely asks who they are

Shamate: The tribe of Chinese migrant workers

How a generation of rural migrants found belonging in impossible hairstyles and neon dye

A death trade under the banner of weight loss and weight gain

In Tunisia, unregulated “miracle” supplements smuggled in from Algeria promise rapid weight changes but leave behind a trail of illness and death

Breaking barriers, building bridges

The story of Basque grassroots association helping migrants cross the frontier between Spain and France

And so it flows

Sophia Smith Galer looks at an article, and a doctoral thesis, about the Venetian-origin dialect once prevalent in the city of Fiume/Rijeka, now ever more endangered Cities where many languages

The wisdom of the Semende

How a land stewardship custom honouring eldest daughters has allowed a Sumatran indigenous group to flourish over three hundred years South of the shiny skyscrapers of Singapore and west of

Essay by a Manchu girl in Tibet

A personal essay by a young Manchu woman attending university in Tibet, documenting the experience of being from an ethnic minority background in China. Recommended by: Jessie Lau “What does

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As America narrows its linguistic identity by executive order, the fight over who gets to be heard —and in what language—returns with new urgency

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