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Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate
Society, Politics & Law

Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate

...migration and narratives from those with backgrounds of seeking asylum. The Covid Chronicles from the Margins project explores the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic from the perspectives of creative asylum-seekers, refugees and migrants in the UK and around the world. [Refugee cartoon, society matters] While the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean seems calmer than this...
The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education
Society, Politics & Law

The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education

...migration status. Among the world’s three to four-year-olds, the richest children are almost six times more likely to attend an early childhood education programme than the poorest. But while poverty continues to be the largest single root of educational deprivation, the widest disparities are found where multiple issues converge. In Serbia, for example, the Roma...
How Do Batteries Work?
Science, Maths & Technology

How Do Batteries Work?

...migrate in a conducting wire under the action of electric forces, due to the change imbalance at the ends. The arrow shows the direction of movement of the electrons. Now let’s consider what would happen if we concentrated all the electrons at one end of the wire. There would then be a large excess of positive charge at one end, and a large excess of negative charge at...
How did Aretha Franklin inspire the civil rights movement?
History & The Arts

How did Aretha Franklin inspire the civil rights movement?

...migrated from the south during a time when segregation and Jim Crow law was still in effect, who then went on to participate in mainstream American culture. Her deep connection to the southern freedom movement was familial and spiritual as well as musical – her father was actively involved with Democratic party politics and the civil rights movement. Politicians and...
The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions
History & The Arts

The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions

...migration and the development of new media and social networking. The globalisation of African-Caribbean religions and their attitude of being boundaryless (Niaah, 2008) led these religions to be localised, and to be embraced, developed, and re-created in more diverse contexts than the Caribbean, such as in Israel or Italy. Therefore, despite centuries of Western negative...
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...migration, socio-economic security, technological innovation and environmental sustainability. You’ll be introduced to a conceptual framework called PASH (power, agency, scale and history) that will help you to make sense of these issues and consider how we might better respond to them...This course will introduce you to ideas of global development and the...
Does the US have a legal obligation to accept refugees?
Society, Politics & Law

Does the US have a legal obligation to accept refugees?

...migration system in line with international non-discrimination protections. That said, a person cannot claim asylum unless they are on US soil. The executive order will generally suspend issuing visas for 90 days for Iranian, Iraqi, Libyan, Somalian, Sudanese, Syrian and Yemeni citizens under the US visa-waiver programme. An exception for “religious minority” – such...
Researching cycling in the US & the UK
Society, Politics & Law

Researching cycling in the US & the UK

...migrations of people, the areas that it’s expanding particularly quickly are within global cities, and it’s becoming a part of how cities demonstrate that they’re contemporary and vibrant and growing. And so in many ways the people who are cycling have tended to live in a variety of different places and, you know, in some ways if academics were unable to meet other...