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Refugees and Borders
Refugees and Borders
Refugees in Indonesia and Iraq Condemn Western Indifference
Matt Broomfield
We Don’t Need Borders
We think of borders as the most natural thing in the world. In reality, they are an unnecessary evil, and fighting them has to be a top priority. Here’s why borders have no place in a just world.
5 Reasons Global Free Movement Isn’t Such a Bad Idea
Aisha Dodwell
How Power Hungry Politicians and the Far-right Are Turning Italy Against Refugees
Hsiao-Hung Pai
On Migration and the State: Lea Ypi
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Lea Ypi, professor in political theory at the LSE to discuss ways of thinking about migration, what it tells us about the state and the possibility of an emancipatory cosmopolitanism.
No More Deaths at Sea
On the sixth of February 2014, the Guardia Civil fired rubber bullets at African migrants trying to swim into the Spanish-controlled Moroccan city of Ceuta. At least 14 deaths were recorded. Four years later campaigners marched against the callous disregard for life at Europe’s borders. A Film by Gosia Juszczak & Darío Unai Cristóbal Pulido
The Cargo Women of Melilla
Embedded in the Moroccan coast, the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla represent Europe’s southernmost border. There is no formal customs agreement between these two autonomous cities and Morocco, giving rise to a system where goods are smuggled across the border as personal luggage to avoid customs charges and taxes. The burden of this work […]
Ghettoes of Europe: The Private Landlords Making Billions From Refugee Shelters in Berlin
Hsiao-Hung Pai
The Bitter Fruit of Andalucia
Visible from space, the vast concentration of plastic greenhouses in Almeria supply more than half of Europe’s fruit and vegetables. An economic boom in this previously poor region of Andalucia has come at the expense of the African migrants who work in these greenhouses, under slave-like conditions. Approximately 200 workers live there during peak season. […]
