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My friends find it hard to believe that I have no childhood memories of my mother. Sure there are pictures in her photo albums that prove that she [...]
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It can be difficult to gauge the balance between making university places accessible but also maintaining their value – here’s how Singapore does it University degrees are a strange commodity. They [...]
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Kanchi Tamang from a village near Pokhara, the second largest city in Nepal, has been working in Saudi Arabia for the past three years. Her two children aged eight [...]
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Abstract: The big amount of Salvadoran migrants living in the USA has become a business opportunity for small and medium enterprises, which have organized themselves to export certain products that [...]
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As ever more Hungarians decide to leave the country, Hungary faces a creeping social crisis. Who will replace those young talents who emigrate? And what effect will this have on [...]
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Fiji is a developing island nation and the majority of the population live in rural areas of the two main islands. According to a Fiji Bureau of Statistics report in [...]
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When my parents moved to Australia with me as a screaming baby in tow, the situation in Sudan was dire, true, but it was much more an economic [...]
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This recent article from Salon describes the evolution of a zero-sum game scenario between the Indigenous Amazonian Shuar tribe and international mining companies backed by the Ecuadorian [...]
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The articles about Italy I have read in international press, especially those written after the last elections, are generally uninteresting, often simplistic and rarely illuminating. None of them has yet seriously [...]
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Beset by economic woes and laboring under rapid demographic change, Pakistan still manages to leverage the power of technological breakthroughs in new and creative ways to improve the workings of [...]
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A citizen and his State. This relationship is at the forefront of discussion as the welfare state tests its limits and migration patterns become increasingly metropolitan. Thanks in particular to [...]
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Riding the subway in Chicago recently, I saw an advertisement for the popular American television show “Two and a Half Men.” The punch line of the ad was “men will [...]
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The first time I had to explain my nationality to a stranger was back in 1996. I was a 15 year old high school student then, hundreds of miles away [...]
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Abstract: Rita Laura Melgar is a 27 year old Salvadorean, who became a mother when she was 16. As a brilliant student, she managed herself to finish her secondary and [...]
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Sasha and I were colleagues in university. He was a mediocre student. After graduation I didn't manage to find any work paying more than 30 euro a month. So I [...]
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I set my feet on the São Paulo supernova. It’s a grey morning and streams of people are walking to the nearest subway station. I go with the flow, street [...]
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Migration brings new faces to our cities every day, and takes others away. Successful economies worldwide lure young job-seekers, while many social and economic factors keep (or drive) others home. [...]
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Consistently over the past few months, there have been a slew of Western media articles on what Al Jazeera calls an instance of ‘reverse migration’. Many people who [...]
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Victoria Masika can hardly speak her mother tongue. If Victoria attempts to speak her parents’ native language she does so with an imperfect accent. “Many times I feel embarrassed [...]
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Bella Abzug, a late feminist activist and American politician is famously quoted as having stated, regarding the equality of men and [...]
