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Published in: 50.50How women migrant workers defy ‘social control’ with everyday resistance
Women migrant workers face extreme forms of social control in Saudi Arabia. One Sri Lankan woman shares her story of...
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Published in: 50.50Reproductive rights on the move: refugee women in Greece struggle to access contraception
Half of female asylum-seekers in Europe are aged 18-34. With little control over their environments, how can they...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Stop blaming the rescuers
Attacks against rescue efforts in the Mediterranean must stop. The recent Italian and EU proposals are just the last...
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Published in: 50.50Art and the refugee ‘crisis’: Mediterranean blues
Artists are mapping new itineraries of the Mediterranean, throwing into relief an incurable colonial wound that...
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Published in: 50.50Too many Afghan women in London face racism, sexism – and unwanted pregnancies
Recent research on Afghan immigrant women in London has revealed a multi-layered crisis. What can be done to address...
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Published in: 50.50What could a multi-million euro arts festival offer struggling communities in Greece?
The world-class €37 million Documenta arts festival comes to Athens – and brings challenging questions about art’s...
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Published in: 50.50Theresa May and the love police
In Theresa May’s “One Nation” we are all border guards. Her vision of the Big Society will make us all shrink.
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Published in: 50.50The refugee crisis: demilitarising masculinities
Photos emerging from the borders of Europe weave a new narrative around what it means to be vulnerable, to be a man,...
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Published in: 50.50Why is so much art about the ‘refugee crisis’ so bad?
Even at a celebrity art gala you can don an emergency blanket and feel good about yourself. Hard political...
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Published in: 50.50Locked in limbo: the prolonged detention of stateless people in Europe must end now
Some stateless people are detained for months, even years, without any real prospect of their cases being resolved....
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Published in: 50.50Reflections on post-humanitarianism in dark times
British opposition to search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean and Polish pseudo-theological justifications...
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Published in: 50.50What does justice mean for migrant women workers?
Those who want to help migrant women access justice must listen to them, and their concerns and priorities.
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Published in: 50.50A very British tug of war over Europe’s child refugees
Parliament has voted to silence the voices of local communities. Their message of European solidarity and warm...
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Published in: 50.50Will Nepal give equal citizenship rights to women?
Nepali women are treated as second-class citizens, due to discriminatory nationality law.
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Published in: 50.50No Women’s Day without refugee women
Hand-in-hand with Trump, Theresa May is not merely playing to an anti-migrant populist crowd but helped to create...
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Published in: 50.50Lessons from Syria on women's empowerment during conflict
Syrian women will be the pillars of any future democratic process. Their efforts deserve support from national and...
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Published in: 50.50‘I am not safe’: on the run as a gay man in Afghanistan
Ahmad Faizi’s story is one of many contradicting the UK Home Office guidelines that “it may be a safe and viable...
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Published in: 50.50Israel’s invisible refugees
We often think of the Refugees Welcome culture as a ‘European’ phenomenon, but an exchange between German and...
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Published in: 50.50Stop Trump – definitely! But then what?
Resisting Trump should involve asking the UK government to reconsider its approach to global security alliances.
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Published in: 50.50Internally displaced women: social rupture and political voice
Displacement is social as well as geographical. Women’s welfare and survival depends significantly on their social...