Crossover Dreams is a new blog by IPS writers about migration flows and the global economy. Anchored by Peter Costantini, IPS correspondent in Seattle, it is hosted on the Huffington Post, the fastest growing news site in the United States.

Migration is by definition a phenomenon that crosses borders and generates radically different perspectives among those touched by it. IPS writes about it regularly promoting news stories through the migration and refugees website and a newsletter . This new blog is an opportunity for IPS writers to get more personal - to include their own experiences and reflections about reporting migration from their communities and countries.

In the first post, Migrants R Us, Peter Costantini blogs about his own family’s experience of migration from Abruzzo, Italy to New York and links to his most recent IPS stories about jornaleros, the day laborers who wait for work on sidewalks outside many building supply and garden stores across the country.

Crossover Dreams builds on a new partnership between IPS and the Huffington Post, a news and blogging website based in the United States. Since January 2009 Huff Post has been regularly featuring IPS stories for the new ‘World‘ section. Selected stories from IPS authors, notably by Gareth Porter, have been tremendously popular, generating hundreds of thousands of page views and thousands of comments from Huff Post readers. In 2008 Huff Post was ranked as the most powerful blog in the world by the UK’s The Observer newspaper.

IPS hosts two independent blogs, by Jim Lobe from Washington DC and Costanza Vieira in Bogota. Other IPS writers who blog can be found at this link IPS in the blogosphere.

If you are an IPS writer interested in joining the Crossover Dreams blog, please contact jpetercostantini[at]comcast.net