Maria Murriel
Maria Murriel is a reporter interested in migration and identity. Addicted to travel.
I'm interested in stories about migration and identity, as well as journalism that causes people to engage with one another.
I was a reporter and editor at The World and previously built the digital department at WLRN in Miami, my hometown.
I grew up in Peru, and like to tell stories about the Andean region, its culture and diaspora.
I prefer Instagram over Twitter, and I travel every chance I get. Craft beer, cats and single malts are a few of my weaknesses.
Read this book about writing. About death. (By a gifted novelist.)
Edwidge Danticat's latest book, "The Art of Death," helped her process her mother's death.
Nabra Hassanen's murder feeds anti-immigrant rhetoric on the conservative internet
Cuba's Daymé Arocena found her religion through music
Ebola is over. Now the US wants a group of West African immigrants to go home.
New York's Puerto Rican Day Parade stirs tensions between the island and the mainland
DHS extension of protected status for Haitian immigrants might be the last
About 60,000 Haitian immigrants on temporary protected status received an extension of the program that allows them to live and work legally in the US. But it only lasts six months.
Haitian immigrants get extension of protected status, worry it might not be long enough
The Department of Homeland Security on Monday extended Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for Haitians in the United States. The program will continue to benefit Haitians for six months.
White nationalism in Sweden has a long history. Now it also has partners in America.
Richard Spencer, the American white nationalist known for getting punched in the face on camera and extolling Donald Trump with a Hitlerian salute, has formed a new publishing venture with Swedish far-right extremists.
It's World Penguin Day! Help scientists count penguins.
Penguins are a bellwether of climate change. Scientists use their population size and well-being as indicators of the state of Antarctica.
A massive ICE raid in this town didn't stop undocumented labor — or illegal immigration
ICE detained hundreds of people and deported most of them. A decade later, New Bedford, Massachusetts, is still home to a large undocumented population.
Undocumented workers demand rights in a city scarred by a massive raid
Even without legal status, immigrants in New Bedford, Mass. are organizing to face what they think is unfair work treatment.
Immigration lawyers: Trump crackdown tactics will see fierce legal challenges
The tactics outlined in Homeland Security memos include deporting undocumented immigrants to Mexico regardless of their nationality, and seeking expedited removal of these immigrants — meaning no court hearings, no due process.
In our Orwellian reality, reach for 'Animal Farm' with your '1984'
In "Animal Farm," George Orwell traces the slippery slope from democracy to totalitarianism. It looks a lot like the US today.
Portraits of the march: Illustrating the Women's March on Washington
Millions of people around the world took to the streets this weekend to proclaim that women's rights are human rights. We spoke to some marchers in D.C. about why they were there.
Native activists focus on protests — not so much the ballot box
President Trump's record with Native communities is not good, say the Native activists who came to his inauguration to protest.