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Migration crisis in the EU – Choosing between bad and worst?
As migrants keep arriving at the borders of the European Union, EU countries will soon face a hard choice. They will either risk a social crisis by carrying on with their foreign policy that lacks deep-cutting engagement such as serious military involvement and state building in conflict zones and better […]
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China’s Hukou System Furthers Its Educational Inequality
China operates a household registration system, the hukou, which is often times bewildering to foreigners. As outsiders, we often assume that freedom of movement within our country of citizenship is sacrosanct. Domestic migrants in China, however, pay a high price. The recent Economist article about China’s unequal hukou system was correct in […]
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Studying Abroad in Times of the Globalized Labor Market
As the genesis of every nation’s economic and cultural development, education apropos higher education, is essential thus the investment as much as financial and social is ever-growing. Fundamentally, the rise and fall of a state’s policy regardless of the politics always goes back to the roots and is attributed to […]
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Turning to Localization instead of Globalization
I grew up in a time when the barriers between developed countries and developing countries started becoming permeable. Windows opened and I could peek into life in other latitudes. As I learned about lives of people in other places, I absorbed the message that development meant I should aspire to […]
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Indigenous Women and Grassroots Alternatives to Development
Having spent last summer working in Uganda, I wasn’t surprised at what I saw as I walked down a street in Chiapas, Mexico. A woman perhaps the age of my grandmother, was plodding steadily in front of me with her back bent ever so slightly. The weight of the large […]