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Imagine a dimly lit room, a rural interior in Eastern India. This is where the elderly Bijoya gazes out through the railings of her cracked window, waiting eagerly for Bardhan, [...]
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Abstract: Intipucá is a very small, dusty and hot town in rural El Salvador. However, it used to be one of the richest towns in the country. Said [...]
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‘Where are you from?’ is the first question everyone asks you. It's a question I can't stand. Explaining my origins and identity takes a long time. Why? Well, I was [...]
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After living in Germany, United Kingdom, China and Argentina,Manuel Schneider, a young German business development manager, spent two years in Brazil. Before he left the country, [...]
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Most of the 5 million Palestinians are refugees. More than two million live in Western Europe and North America. They left Palestine and the refugee camps where they were denied [...]
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In our globalised world, it is becoming easier to cross borders but many nations, including Australia, maintain exclusive policies that prevent migrants from participating fully in [...]
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As economic immigrants, where do we find our cultural identity? The answers are probably as unique as every immigrant who arrives in a new country. So I decided to ask [...]
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Out of the one and a half million Syrians living in Egypt, more than 300,000 have recently come here seeking a safe haven from the [...]
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In present-day Brazil immigration has once more taken a pole position in public debate as the estimated population of Bolivians living in the country has reached the 350,000 mark, further [...]
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In the age of migration and globalization, it is often argued that we need to remember where we come from. Whenever people ask me about my roots, I catch myself [...]
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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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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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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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Bella Abzug, a late feminist activist and American politician is famously quoted as having stated, regarding the equality of men and [...]
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In the middle of March in Brussels about 40 representatives of civil society from European Union candidate countries (South-East Europe, Turkey and Iceland) attended the European Commission study tour “Direct [...]
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Every culture or tradition is an invention, the famous English historian Eric J Hobsbawm once said, so it's impossible to talk about a "pure" culture, a culture free of the [...]
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The crisis in Europe is starting to cause the demolition of the so-called "Welfare State" in many countries while others are struggling to hold it together. At the same time, [...]
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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) established in 1975 was formed to to facilitate a common socio-economic [...]
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High numbers of pensioners, young people’s drive for education and prosperity and the growing gap between the young and the rich are all changing the British landscape. The welfare state [...]
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At a recent dinner I bumped into two second generation Indians who had recently moved to India from Britain and the US. Ravi had managed to jump the hurdles and [...]
