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The recent electoral success of a party with Nazi origins must be understood as part of the long history of white Swedes’ desire for racial homogeneity.
Celebrations of multiculturalism obscure the country’s settler colonial history—and the role that immigrants play in perpetuating it.
The Fourteenth Amendment was shaped by freed blacks’ insistence that everyone born in the United States deserved full citizenship.
We can learn from the surprising coalition of people who sheltered and rescued escaped slaves.
Refugee camps, intended to be temporary, host people for an average of 12 years.
Migrants are dying as they cross the Mediterranean. Is there a better way?
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