Megan Alpert is a fellow at Foreign Policy. Her previous bylines have included The Guardian, Guernica Daily, and Earth Island Journal. She is an Orlando Poetry Prize winner, a former resident-fellow at Vermont Studio Center, and a graduate of The Bennington Writing Seminars.
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 15: About fifty pro-immigration reform demonstrators gathered for a rally outside the United States Supreme Court January 15, 2016 in Washington, DC. Organized by immigraiton advocacy group CASA, the demonstrators called on the Supreme Court to take up and overrule a lower court's ruling against President Barack Obama's 2014 immigration executive actions, including the Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) program and expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) guidelines. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
A protester holds a sign reading "Bad Year - Workers : We were formidable (making 24 000 tyres per day) - Bosses : They were pathetic (pushing for outsourcing)" as workers of the Goodyear tyre manufacturing company's factory in Amiens take part in a protest against the company's announced layoffs of workers, in front of the town hall in Amiens, on January 18, 2014. A few hundred workers took part in the protest against the proposed layoffs with many chanting a common slogan 'To fire a worker is to kill a family'. AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI (Photo credit should read FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI/AFP/Getty Images)
In this photograph taken on June 15, 2015, young Indian students take a 'selfie' on Marine Drive promenade in Mumbai. Selfies have become a global phenomenon with users rarely missing an opportunity to snap a photo of themselves, whether it be in front of a world-famous landmark or simply at dinner with friends. While people may have enjoyed having their photo taken since self-portraits first appeared in 1839, the invention of smartphones with front-facing cameras is fuelling a different type of selfie in the 21st century. A Pew Research Center poll last year estimated that more than half of 18-33 year olds had taken their own portrait before sharing it on social networks online. The phenomenon has fuelled special technology to help users take the perfect shot, most notably the now-ubiquitous selfie stick. AFP PHOTO/ Indranil MUKHERJEE (Photo credit should read INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images)
PAJU, REPUBLIC OF KOREA - JUNE 16: A South Korean soldier takes down a battery of propaganda loudspeakers on the border with North Korea in Paju on 16 June 2004 in Paju, South Korea. The removal of the propaganda devices along the world?s last Cold War frontier follows on from the inter-Korean summit accord which was reached in 2000. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
Young men take part in the third world bicycle ride against drug trafficking and in favor of the legalization of self-cultivation of marijuana for medicinal and recreational purposes in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia on October 4, 2014. AFP PHOTO/Raul ARBOLEDA (Photo credit should read RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP/Getty Images)
Iraqi men search through the rubble of buildings in the aftermath of a massive suicide car bomb attack carried out by the Islamic State group in the predominantly Shiite town of Khan Bani Saad, 20 km north of Baghdad, on July 18, 2015. The suicide attack by the IS group was one of the deadliest since it took over swathes of Iraq last year and came as the country marked Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim feast that ends the fasting month of Ramadan. AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
Prime Minister David Cameron chats with Prime Minister of Jamaica Portia Simpson Miller and St Lucia Prime Minister Kenny Anthony at a reception at Buckingham Palace, London, to welcome Heads of State and Heads of Government to the UK before they travel to the Olympic Stadium for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Friday July 27, 2012. See PA story OLYMPICS Royal. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
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A refugee claimant Colombian woman poses with her daughter at her home in the small Ecuadorean port of San Lorenzo, Esmeraldas province, northwestern Ecuador, near to the border with Colombia, on November 08, 2012. AFP PHOTO/Eitan Abramovich (Photo credit should read EITAN ABRAMOVICH/AFP/Getty Images)
