Becoming French
Phineas RueckertCitizenship and belonging amidst the rise of the far-right
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ICE Comes to Europe, Secret RN Facebook Accounts and Not-So-Nice Guys
Hooligans from Nice attack a Paris bar.
Imagine. Wide-reaching policing powers that allow for immigration agents to track undocumented migrants in their homes, schools, workplaces. Sprawling offshore detention centers where sub-Saharan Af...
An Asylum Seeker Found Dead in Honduras, Student Fees and Vichy on the Radio
A Vichy propaganda poster.
Rubén Torres liked football, museum visits and nature photography. His dream was to run a bar in Bordeaux, in Southern France, once his asylum claim was accepted. On March 10, 2026 — roughly 10 days after he was...
Horses, a Banned Neo-Nazi Rally, and the Immigration Cost Inquiry Nobody Asked For
Yesterday, I almost missed my interview. The culprit: mounted horses.
That’s right. May 8 was Victory Day in Europe — a day celebrated through parades that would make Donald J. Trump very jealous and does make Parisian residents very both...
Big Changes Coming to this Stack
A scene from this weekend’s May Day protest in Paris.
I’ll admit it, two years ago when I first started this Substack, I didn’t see it as a journalistic opportunity. It was 2024, and Elon Musk had just done something foul — I don’t even r...
The French Law Proposal No One Is Talking About (with Diane Fogelman)
The French police prefecture in Paris at night. Wikimedia Commons / besopha
Over the past month, French politicians have breathlessly debated a law proposal aimed at heavily criminalizing anti-semitism. Referring to what it defines as “new...
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Investigative journalist covering human rights, migration and the rise of the far-right. Always Paris posting. Just finished cycling from Austria to Greece.
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