Gilda Brasileiro is an Afro-Brazil­ian woman who only recent­ly moved to a vil­lage in the Atlantic rain forest. She is all the more out­raged that no one seems inter­est­ed in … read more

She cooks bunch­es of sting­ing nettle, blows her nose loudly, can breathe fire when she talks, and was ugly even as a child, Lule says. But then Lule, who is … read more

For cen­turies, the Berbers in the Middle and High Atlas Moun­tains have been sub­sist­ing on farm­ing and rais­ing cattle. How­ev­er, they are no longer able to make a living from the land. Soil ero­sion and the overuse of pas­tures is con­tin­u­al­ly forc­ing the men to go to find work in the city. But the city is far away, and trans­porta­tion alone eats up most of their wages.
In 2008, Moroc­co began to devel­op its more rural areas. With much effort and manual labor, power poles were erect­ed in the uneven, rocky ground. Because people had to pay to be con­nect­ed to the power grid them­selves, most of them began their modern lifestyle in debt.
Ivan Boc­cara fol­lowed the process of elec­tri­fi­ca­tion over a period of eight years, observ­ing the con­se­quences that soon became all too vis­i­ble. Young people are espe­cial­ly drawn to the city, where they hope to find dif­fer­ent edu­ca­tion and train­ing pos­si­bil­i­ties. What oppor­tu­ni­ties does elec­tri­fi­ca­tion bring?

Brahim Nad­hour, a Tunisian who has been living in France since he and his wife sep­a­rat­ed, returns to Tunis to bury his son, Marouane, who died in a motor­cy­cle acci­dent. … read more

The small town of Tori­ta­ma in the barren land­scape of north-east­ern Brazil has declared itself the “cap­i­tal do jeans.” Mil­lions of pairs of jeans are made there every year, most … read more

Sur­vival Strate­gies for Cold Countries There have always been large waves of migra­tion into and out of Europe caused by eco­nom­ic devel­op­ments. Nonethe­less, the arrival of refugees in Ger­many in … read more

The Arhua­co live in the high­est moun­tains of Colom­bia. They wear their tra­di­tion­al white clothes as they have for many cen­turies and main­tain their cul­ture and spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, which is tight­ly … read more