Border Crossings: In a World on the Move, a Tiny Land Strains to Cope
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The West African nation of Cape Verde, where almost everyone has a relative abroad, is a microcosm of the forces of migration that are remaking societies across the globe.
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This week, three U.S. border crossings -- one from Canada, at Port Huron, and two from Mexico, at Laredo, Tex., and Douglas, Ariz. -- launched a program run by the Department of Homeland Security to collect fingerprints and photos at U.S. borders.
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TORONTO, Sept. 1 -- When the radio crackled with news that two California murder suspects were racing toward the U.S. border in January, Canadian border guards quickly  cleared passenger cars from their posts and then fled.
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The local-global conundrum, a thoroughly modern predicament, has found its way into a small shelfâs worth of new food books.
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Fifteen years ago, geography lessons were simple for young Europeans. They learned that the European Union's border ended at the Iron Curtain that separated East and West Germany for more than four decades.
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Officials call on international community to open crossing points for trade.
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The governmentâs inability to manage a reverse exodus has left the most vulnerable in an uneasy limbo.
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In a poor country that lacks railways - reliant on its roads for food supplies - it is the small things that are indicative of how Nepal is being hurt by the Maoist rebels&#39; five-day blockade of Katmandu.
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METSIAMANONG, Botswana -- When Dahame Belese left the land of his ancestors, his parents felt as though he had fallen off the edge of the universe. They had no idea of the world outside, had never traveled by car or bicycle. They had not even climbed on a donkey's back.
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Kenyaâs countryside seems to be settling into a state of lawlessness that is more reminiscent of the checkpoint culture in Somalia or Darfur, Sudan.
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Some say stricter measures endanger wildlife, but others argue those concerns are smokescreens for pro-immigrant sentiment
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An online journal has been followed worldwide by scholars, policy makers and the occasional migrant in distress.
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Central American nations are putting aside border bickering to allow the relatively free movement of people and goods between nations &#151; a goal that has U.S. officials worried about a jump in smuggling of drugs and people in a region already plagued by crime and on the lookout for terrorists.
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It is an ordinary inn in Queens, catering to truckers and salesmen. But to refugees fleeing war and worse, it is the portal to a safe, long-sought world.
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OSHIKANGO, Namibia  - The other side of the fence  looks no different from this, but in some respects it is a  world away.
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Few recent changes have affected life in Hong Kong more than the opening of the border with the mainland.
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Despite all the talk of homeland security, sneaking into the U.S. is scandalously easy--and on the rise. Millions of illegal aliens will pour across the U.S.-Mexican border this year, many from countries hostile to America. TIME looks at the damage, the dangers and the reasons the U.S. fails to protect itself