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globalisationEnjoy contested debates and in-depth analysis by leading actors and thinkers – plus word from ‘ordinary’ people experiencing the effects of globalisation. The aim is clear thinking – and workable solutions for globalisation
Cross-straits flights mark a new phase in a tense relationship (archive)
A series of votes on regional autonomy tests Bolivians' capacity to live together
A "citizen media" summit highlights the potential and danger of activist blogging under dictatorship
The death of a co-founder and the freeing of hostages mean crisis for the FARC movement (archive)
Drought, thirst, and land-hunger...a parched earth equals global environmental danger
Robert Mugabe’s coronation is the time to start preparing in detail for the aftermath of his regime
The Tiananmen protests of 1989 and the turbulent activism of 2008 share hidden connections
The Arab Gulf's super-modern business hub is primed to explode. Can it change in time?
A vigorous contest between two leading authors over nation, diversity, agency, racism, change
The elements of the global war are shifting faster than the strategy of America and its allies
When it comes to
the salami slicing around which foreigners are deserving and which not, the
moral high ground is a treacherous terrain. What is needed is less rhetoric and
far more politics.
The unsettling effect of immigrants
and refugees is a signal of their pivotal global role
The imminent UK ratification of a European
convention which describes women in the sex trade as the victims of trafficking
is to be welcomed, not least because it will lead to more prosecutions. Isn't
it time that the government criminalised the buyers of these services?
The introduction of an EU Returns Directive demonstrates
an official capacity to privilege state interests over those of the individual
We are all
implicated in the tragedies that result from shifts in access to healthcare for
refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.
Migrants' belief in the American dream has fuelled the nation for years. It shouldn't stop now
Immigration controls trap the excluding society as well as block migrants. Open up to breathe free
The UK's Iraqi asylum seekers are now being forced
to return to all areas of Iraq.
Are the lives of refugees being used for political gain?
Britain prides itself on a tradition of providing refuge for those fleeing persecution. But asylum policy has undergone many changes through the ages. Here we outline some of the key events in history.
Asylum has a pedigree stretching back to the Greek empire, but many liberal states are still struggling with a central question: how do you
reconcile the rights of people, which are universal, and citizens, which are particular?
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