A PLAN MADE IN HIDING
The New Yorker
December 2025
A Mexican Couple in California Plans to Self-Deport—and Leave Their Kids Behind. →
Tight Quarters
The New Yorker
May 2025
In New York City, a shadow economy helps new arrivals find a place to sleep. Sometimes it's just a bed and a curtain.→
THE TIKTOK TRAIL
The New Yorker
January 2025
Many people from the Andes have settled in New York. They face tremendous difficulties, but their online posts glamorize their lives, drawing others northward. →
THE CANDY SELLERS
New York Magazine
August 2023
The lives and livelihoods of some of New York's newest migrant children.→
THE BANDONEÓN PLAYS ON
National Geographic
February 2025
Damián Guttlein is the only person in the world who can tune by ear the unique instrument that powers the perfectly imperfect sound of tango music. →
about
Jordan Salama is an author and a contributing writer at The New Yorker. He has written about migration, culture, and the environment in the Americas. His first book, Every Day the River Changes, about a journey down Colombia’s Río Magdalena, and the people who live along its banks, was named one of the best books of 2021 by Kirkus Reviews, and a top new travel book by the New York Times.
Salama is also the author of “Stranger in the Desert: A Family Story,” which chronicles his search across Argentina for traces of his great-grandfather, who worked as a travelling salesman in the Andes in the nineteen-twenties. Salama’s essays and reporting have also appeared in National Geographic, New York magazine, and the Times, among other publications.
Salama is based in New York. Get in touch here.