The democratic countries must courageously show a willingness to apply the principles on which their internal system is based to the global sphere
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Liza Schuster
Liza Schuster is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at
City University, London. She is currently working on a study of
migrants in transit, and also works on migration, asylum and racism in
Europe.
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