The immigration lawyer who hid her undocumented past

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Qian Julie Wang arrived in the United States from China at the age of 7. Her family didn’t have permission to be in the country and so she always told people she’d been born there. But after fulfilling her ambition to become a lawyer, her secret became harder to bear. She was often working on immigration and deportation cases, and found it painful and conflicting to make judgements when she’d been in a similar situation. She then faced an agonising dilemma: to keep her secret or come clean. She knew that either decision could potentially mean the end of her career. Beautiful Country is by Qian Julie Wang. Shaku Myoshin isn't your average Buddhist monk. For a start he has long hair, tied in a ponytail. But that's not the reason he's called the 'Funky Monk'. He goes by the name of Tatsumi and is known as Japan's beatboxing monk. He lives in a temple in Kumamoto in southern Japan and Outlook's Alessia Cerantola went to meet him in 2018. Get in touch: [email protected] Picture: Qian Julie Wang Credit: Ryan Muir