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‘People on the south side of town are not huge fans of the Border Patrol. That’s why the trucks down here have some extra modifications.’

‘For her, America was a thing that happened to other people.’

‘The Dutch difference stems from their history and understanding of pillarisation…’

Dearborn, Michigan – unofficial capital of Arab America

‘Though I was nervous about tapping into this inherited animosity in Sunnyside, I was more excited by the fantasy of neighborly love’

Jazra Khaleed: ‘Greek society has the blood of immigrants on its hands’

Video:

Seyla Benhabib discusses Migrations and Human Rights

‘…the migration of unskilled labourers, often regarded as little more than a sordid recipe for exploitation, may represent the key to international development.’

‘Modern Canada is as much a palimpsest as a mosaic…a truth that manifests itself in two divergent traditions of immigrant assimilation’

(Book excerpt: ‘The Amazing Absorbing Boy’ by Rabindranath Maharaj)

(Book excerpt: ‘Cockroach’ by Rawi Hage)

‘European Muslims are increasingly acting like other Europeans in the polling place and in the bedroom’

Seven years spent travelling with the Roma, in photographs

‘The very mildness of modern Europe, the absence of extremes, the irony and the distance from national symbols, the low-key and humble attitude to the past: all of this has an appeal’

Iceberg Slim universal rampant aspiration, ‘It’s simple, just pimp my ass off and get a ton of scratch’

Podcast:

Immigrant candidates in multicultural Ireland’s local elections

Parched lands and ‘slow, but forced, migrations’

Remittances reassessed