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Protests in China are shining a light not only on the country’s draconian population management but restrictions on workers everywhere.
The problem isn't new; it's the bordered logic of global apartheid itself.
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.
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.
The UN Convention on Refugees gives form to a humanitarian ideal, but states still judge what counts as harm and who deserves protection.
Far from a relic of the past, September 11 continues to normalize state-sanctioned barbarity.
Celebrations of multiculturalism obscure the country’s settler colonial history—and the role that immigrants play in perpetuating it.
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