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From Caracas to Edgartown: How Did We Get Here?
“Massachusetts: Beneficios para Refugiados” was the title of a brochure that Carlos Muñoz received while applying for asylum in South...
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Jan 5, 20235 min read


Migrant Domestic Workers in Oman: A Lost Population
Fatmata left her home in Sierra Leone in February of 2020, packing her bags for the Sultanate of Oman in hopes of securing “a better...
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Dec 7, 20225 min read
Uncapped Potential: A case for ending country-based green card quotas
In 2016, John Doe, an Indian national who earned a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University, founded a US-based computer vision...
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Jan 8, 20216 min read


Combining Cultures: Grappling with efforts to Germanize Islam
The German government’s historical record of integrating Muslim migrants is less than stellar. The 867,000 mostly Turkish-Muslim “guest...
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Jan 8, 20215 min read


Pacific Islands, Climate Change, and Underwater Nationhood
In the beautiful green-blue waters surrounding an island in the archipelago nation of Kiribati, Anote Tong calmly treads water as he...
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Dec 10, 20186 min read


A Star-Crossed Love Affair: Wyoming’s Toxic Relationship with the Mining Industry
Go West, young man: Horace Greeley’s famous advice has, with one caveat, withstood the test of time. Last January, the US Census Bureau...
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Dec 5, 20185 min read


Discrimination of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
My grandfather Fayez Hamdan Fayad will never forget the year 1948. A Palestinian refugee, he will always remember the time he was forced...
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Oct 19, 20185 min read


Rethinking “Integration” and “Assimilation” of Refugees
The number of international migrants has increased by 41 percent between 2000 and 2014, and it reached 244 million in 2015, with 20...
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Mar 13, 20177 min read


Italy and Libya: A Memorandum of Misunderstanding
The international news circuit, in its coverage of the refugee crisis, has consistently focused on the burden faced by southern European...
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Mar 5, 20177 min read
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