Tag: IMMIGRANTS
Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera has been detained in Cuba since December 30, after attempting to stage a performance about free speech in Havana’s Revolution Square. But back in NYC, her 5-year long-term art project, Immigrant Movement International (IMI), is growing substantially despite her absence. Bruguera, who believes art can be a useful tool to […]
81 Bowery is one of New York’s last lodging houses. Chinese immigrants, most of them working in construction and restaurant service industry, live communally in 64-square-foot spaces on the fourth floor, partitioned by makeshift walls and roofed with wire cages. Photographer Annie Ling on 81 Bowery: “You’re the same age as my daughter… I have not […]
Just like other New Yorkers, documented immigrants living legally in NYC pay municipal taxes and boost our economy. So why shouldn’t they be allowed to vote? This is the logic behind a new bill proposed by Queens Councilman Daniel Dromm that would let non-citizens who have lived in the city for over six months participate […]
