…from Open Democracy this essay by Saskia Sassen describes emerging ‘tertiary spaces’ between the national and the global in which different actors engage. While her focus is more formal institutions, she also acknowledges that diffuse informal examples also exist – many refugee diasporas fit this description.
…from Spiked Online this article reports back from the first [...]
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…from IDMC this update looks at the scale of displacement generated by the ongoing political and humanitarian crisis in Kenya, claiming that up to 100,000 people have so far been displaced.
…from the Economist this special report makes the case for governments continuing to facilitate greater labour migration, claiming that population movements have in recent years [...]
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…from Comment Central this post by Daniel Finklestein discusses the political gains and losses to be made by adopting a particular stance on immigration, particularly illegal immigration. While the reference point for this is the position of Republican candidates for next year’s US Presidential election, there are some interesting insights into the limits of recent [...]
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…from Eurozine this article discusses the impact on conducting research of changing discourses of race and ethnicity and self and other across the last three decades, suggesting that while advances have been made in talking about white racism, new taxonomies can generate new divisions.
…from New York Times this comment piece outlines Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s take [...]
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