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Monica Campbell

Senior Editor/Reporter
Monica Campbell is a former senior editor/reporter at The World, who focused on immigration and immigrant life in the United States. She worked with a network of journalists based throughout the country, and elsewhere in the world, to uncover how shifting US demographics are changing everything from culture to politics.Before joining The World, Campbell reported internationally from Latin America and the Caribbean from 2003 to 2009 and then again from 2015 to 2017. She has also reported Europe and Afghanistan. From her base in Mexico City, Campbell’s stories ranged from indigenous education along Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast and the investigation of civil war crimes in Guatemala to Mexico’s rising drug cartel-related violence and dissident poets in Cuba.She also served as the Mexico representative for the Committee to Protect Journalists and is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.In 2010, she was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.  Campbell has a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from San Jose State University.
SCOTUS detention case
Connecticut landlords step up to fill refugee housing shortage
More migrants see Mexico as a place of refuge, rather than a transit country.
US family still stuck in China
Record heat confirmed in Siberia
Global migration trends
Why do more than 40,000 Afghans remain at military bases in the US?
Biden administration restarts controversial immigration policy at US-Mexico border
With long-haul truckers in high demand, some companies are recruiting from abroad
The push to get more Afghans to safety
Pressure builds for some Haitians to migrate by sea
A morning ride with the reporter who helps Haitians commute safely
On the hunt for ‘liquid gold’ in Haiti as fuel shortage intensifies
Haiti’s Pestel region
Haiti’s capital comes to a standstill over kidnappings
‘We are still here’: Afghan UN employees worry about their safety 
The legacy of 9/11 and US terrorist watchlists
Afghan diaspora scrambles to help relatives back home
As historic airlift continues, resettlement agencies and Afghan American groups depend on donors and volunteers
With guilt and relief, an Afghan family starts a new life in the US
The fate of Afghan employees
Political crises hit Haiti and Cuba, but US immigration policy toward the two countries has not always been the same.
Low vaccinations, rising infections and more crowding at ICE detention centers 
Despite court ruling, DACA recipients vow to push forward
The historical precedent of US wartime evacuations 
Haiti’s security concerns
Questions persist over US ability to care for unaccompanied migrant children
As pressure mounts to protect US allies in Afghanistan, US officials say they have a plan 
The Biden administration has reversed Trump-era decisions that made seeking asylum tougher 
How a Vietnamese community emerged among the most vaccinated in Alabama
How Europe has attempted to stem migration through foreign aid 
The informal aid that remains steady despite the pandemic
US Vice President Kamala Harris sends a strong message to migrants on her first international trip.
Biden administration fast-tracks asylum cases
Dominican-Haitian border wall in the works
Frustration over lack of plan to protect Afghans working with US and NATO forces
Biden maintains Trump-era order that blocks asylum-seekers
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Honduran migrant shares advice for young people arriving to the US 
Families turned back at the US southern border 
Migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border
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A rise in unaccompanied minors at the US-Mexico border
Afghan interpreters left behind 
Unwinding “Remain in Mexico” program at the border
Biden administration’s first orders on immigration 
The legacy of Trump’s travel ban
Trump preps visit to the US-Mexico border wall to tout his immigration policy legacy
Unwinding a Trump policy barring asylum at US-Mexico border
Biden’s immigration to-do list
In Pestel, Haiti, on the country's southern peninsula, Jean-Robert Leger, left, brings in a boat that is a bit smaller than the one he has attempted in to sail to the United States, along with many other migrants aboard.
Migration
Haitians deported from the US face a stark reality back home. Some are making plans to migrate again.
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Conflict
Meet the trusted guide to Port-au-Prince’s streets
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Conflict & Justice
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A Taliban fighter walks on the side of a road as a Humvee carrying other fighters drives by in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 21, 2021.
Afghanistan
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