Sarah Kinosian

Sarah Kinosian is freelance journalist based in Mexico City. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Teen Vogue, Vice, Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post, BBC, Pacific Standard, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post, among other places. She's provided commentary for NPR, BBC, Radio France Internationale and Al Jazeera. In addition to Central America, Kinosian has also reported from the Philippines, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Cuba, and was awarded a fellowship by IWMF to report in El Salvador. 


A boy looks through the slats of the US-Mexico border fence at Friendship Park in Tijuana, Mexico.

‘They’re playing with our lives’ say the first migrants returned under new Mexico policy

A new policy that forces people to wait in Mexico as their US asylum claims are decided has raised questions about where the migrants will live, whether they will be safe and how they can manage high-stakes asylum cases while living in another country. The rollout has been chaotic and confusing.

People link arms in a human chain and pull each other across a river

As United States’ ‘Remain in Mexico’ plan begins, Mexico plans to shut its ‘too successful’ humanitarian visa program

Immigration