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...discount airlines like easyJet have made Schönefeld Airport, in the former communist East, their German hub has also given the city a boost. The number of visitors from abroad is up 2.5 times since 2003. Just as dramatic is the influx of foreigners moving to Berlin to live - they now make up almost 1 in 7 of its 3.5 million inhabitants. The number of non-German Europeans living in Berlin has more than doubled since 2003. There are now more of them than Turks, who long made up the largest contingent of foreigners. In Mitte, almost...
...Tokyo-based Swiss photographer Andreas Seibert set out to document the lives of some of the 130 million Chinese migrant workers who, through their toil, help make China the economic powerhouse it is today. Over the next six years, Seibert traveled to a dozen Chinese provinces and captured images of construction workers, waitresses and scavengers, among others, many of whom he says live a precarious existence due to hazardous working conditions or shady employers. Seibert's strength is in his long-form documentary storytelling, such as when he follows a Mr. Zhou, a solar-panel-factory worker...
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...with a thin, yellow Lacoste hoodie, Felix Zhang’s disposition is every bit as sunny as his outfit. An economics concentrator from Cabot house, Zhang is a product of two countries—China and the United States. Born in America, then sent back to Shanghai to live with this grandparents, Zhang reacquainted himself with his parents when he returned to America as a child. “One day, my parents did come to Shanghai to pick me up and I was like, ‘Oh...hello, strangers...’ I periodically went back home...
...Siqua Thiam, 57, says goodbye to some women who have come for prayers. The sequins of her vivid, canary yellow West Senegalese dress catch the bright fall sun. Her son, an American citizen, is an Army sergeant serving in Iraq. After being widowed in 1999, she left Senegal to live with him and his family. Her son called home immediately after he heard of the attack in Fort Hood, but she reassured him she was fine. Thiam says she has felt no impact and heard no criticism from her neighbors and says she is still proud to dress...