Your Bag Is Private: Police Searches in Japan
A request to open your bag is not the same thing as a legal duty. Here is why I recommend declining voluntary, suspicionless searches, and where that advice has limits.
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Essays
Longer personal stories and evidence-driven arguments about the systems surrounding ordinary life.
Why I Left Puerto Rico for Japan After Hurricane María
Hurricane María did not make me want to travel. It made me ask which country could give my family the stability Puerto Rico no longer could.
ReadWhat I Wanted My Children to Have
Parenthood changed migration from a question about my opportunities into a question about the childhood my children would consider normal.
ReadThe Life I Left Behind Before Japan
I was ready to leave behind any hope of building a career in Puerto Rico. I was not ready to leave my children, even temporarily.
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