Tag: Immigration

Pranab Bardhan

What Will It Take to Save Democracy?

Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says "it's the economy, stupid." The truth is more complicated.

Eli Friedman

Escape from the Closed Loop

Protests in China are shining a light not only on the country’s draconian population management but restrictions on workers everywhere.

Harsha Walia

There Is No “Migrant Crisis”

The problem isn't new; it's the bordered logic of global apartheid itself.

Tobias Hübinette

Race and Sweden’s Fascist Turn

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.

Matt Nadel

122 Immigrants Face the U.S. Death Penalty. Only 2 of Those Sentences Honor International Law.

Angel Francisco Breard was executed by Virginia in contempt of a treaty that required his home country to be notified when he was first charged. What difference might it have made if the U.S. had obeyed the law?

Eleanor Davey

The Humanitarian Disgrace of Australia’s Immigration Regime

Twenty years of cruel anti-immigrant policy have left thousands of asylum seekers in limbo, detained in offshore prisons or in mainland commercial hotels.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Unlearning Our Settler Colonial Tongues

On language and belonging.

Jeffrey S. Kahn

Guantánamo’s Other History

The Haitian migrant crisis at the southern border is only the latest stage in a decades-long legacy of brutal mistreatment by the U.S. government, much of which unfolded at Cuban detention facilities.

Paul Linden-Retek

Whose Suffering Matters?

The UN Convention on Refugees gives form to a humanitarian ideal, but states still judge what counts as harm and who deserves protection.

Joseph Margulies

9/11 Forever

Far from a relic of the past, September 11 continues to normalize state-sanctioned barbarity.

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