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Syrian and Iraqi refugees arrive from Turkey to Skala Sykamias, Lesbos island, Greece. Volunteers (life rescue team - with yellow-red clothes) from the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms help the refugees. Ggia/WikiCommons

15 Feb 2022 3 minute read

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Migration: Europe’s Achilles’ heel

Europe’s moral imagination does not go as far as ensuring the safe movement of people, writes Nanjala Nyabola...

Throughout history migrants have often been treated as a source of disease and ‘contagion’. Immigrant children are examined on arrival at Ellis Island, New York, 1911. Credit: Bettmann/Getty

18 Feb 2020 7 minute read

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How fear infected the border

Ruben Andersson traces the roots of a Freudian fixation.

Europe-bound. Migrant travellers from Togo en route to Italy after being rescued by Spanish rescue NGO Open Arms, February 2017. David Ramos/Getty

12 Feb 2020 11 minute read

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Freedom to move – for everyone

Hazel Healy unpicks the workings of mobility apartheid.

Alex Sager imagines a time when all people are free to move.

29 Jan 2020 7 minute read

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Open borders, 2050

Alex Sager imagines a time when all people are free to move.

24 Oct 2019 5 minute read

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Don’t call the Essex 39 a ‘tragedy’

The British state is complicit in their deaths, argues Jun Pang.

Victory for UK school data

31 May 2018 1 minute read

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Victory for UK school data

Leave those kids alone, Alessio Perrone writes.

9 Mar 2018 5 minute read

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‘Seashore landfilling’ and other waste woes

Lebanon’s waste is literally spilling beyond its shores. Daniel Hilton reports.

Bosnia’s fragile peace: a plaque to war criminal Radko Mladić

21 Feb 2018 6 minute read

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Frozen sectarian divisions heat up in Bosnia

Two decades after the war ended, the country’s peace is looking fragile. Mattha Busby writes.

EU border towns: Migrants sleeping under Via Europa, the bridge linking Italy and France in the border town of Ventimiglia. Photo by Fotomovimiento

18 Dec 2017 5 minute read

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(Dead) end of the journey: when migrants reach border towns

Europe’s response to migration: more police, more walls – for no reason. Alex Fusco writes.

Immigrant rights march in downtown Los Angeles, California on May Day, 2006. Jonathan McIntosh

29 Nov 2017 7 minute read

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7 reasons why we should have open borders

Aisha Dodwell debunks the major myths preventing us from extending free movement to everyone.

11 Sep 2017 5 minute read

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Can Brexit be stopped?

Momentum for an exit from Brexit is building, writes Vanessa Baird.

4 Nov 2016 3 minute read

This article is more than six years old.

Crimes of compassion for refugee solidarity

Human rights campaigner Rob Lawrie speaks to Lydia Noon about people smuggling, bike riding...

25 Oct 2016 2 minute read

This article is more than six years old.

Trick or... Trump? Trump and Clinton hold the stage in US Halloween display

A halloween display featuring a border wall, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders popped up in Connecticut.

1 Jan 2016 5 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

The fear of ‘not enough to go round’

Global inequality lies at the root of our anxiety over migrants, says Bridget Anderson.

17 Dec 2015 13 minute read

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Moving from ‘no borders’ to broaderland for the borderless

Farzana Khan makes the case for a new way of being open.

5 Nov 2015 6 minute read

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Lampedusa – battered by the winds, gasping for air

Antoine Cassar describes the solidarity and suffocation experienced on the Mediterranean island.

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