Most of the rich countries in the world have been bounced or scurried into fairly extreme state action aimed at controlling immigrants and refugees. But they have responded more to
A key yet much overlooked feature of the current period is the proliferation of partial, often highly specialised, global assemblages of bits of territory, authority and rights once firmly ensconced
All images courtesy of OCCO, a community organization set up and run by Attiq Uddin Ahmed
I left Lahore towards the end of the first week of the state of
Gordon Brown, since he became British prime minister on 27 June 2007, has proposed a series of administrative changes that - if implemented - will alter the distribution of power
In the United States and Europe alike, immigration policy isn't working – and the failure is most evident at the crossing-points of the rich and poor worlds, from the
Francis Fukuyama's afterword to the second paperback edition of The End of History and the Last Man is in most ways a welcome postscript to his original argument
Could it be that what the Danish cartoons conflict has done is to tip a larger process in the making, and in this tipping make that larger process visible?
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In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. Forty-nine of openDemocracy’s distinguished contributors, from Mariano Aguirre to Slavoj Zizek, Neal Ascherson to Jonathan Zittrain – offer their predictions for the com
It is estimated that more than 2,500 would-be immigrants died trying to enter Europe over the last decade. That is many dead: but not many would-be immigrants for a
