FEATURED WORK
Shadows in Paradise
The Dark History of the CNMI Guest Worker Program
For nearly fifty years, tens of thousands of foreign workers helped build the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands while remaining largely invisible to the nation they were helping build.
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“A powerful, necessary, and long-overdue reckoning with a hidden chapter of American history.”
— For the Children of the Workers
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