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Violent protests have erupted in India after the country’s parliament approved a bill that will ease citizenship processes for migrants and refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh - on condition they don’t identify as Muslims. In Assam, many residents, especially from Muslim communities, fear that the bill - alongside another legal measure known as the national register citizenship - could strip them of their rights and make them stateless. Anuradha Sen Mookherjee looks at the role of local activists.
To mark International Migrants Day, Apostolos Andrikopoulos challenges the sceptical approach that immigration officials in Europe take to cross-border marriages, and sets out why they deserve to be framed differently.
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Activists and local volunteers meet and console Assamese villagers who might have lost their Indian citizenship.
Anuradha Sen Mookerjee
Anuradha Sen Mookerjee, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
As new citizenship law will further discriminate against people on religious basis in India's north-eastern Assam, local activists are uniting across the region to help distressed residents.
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Mixed marriages are viewed suspiciously by European immigration officers.
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Apostolos Andrikopoulos, University of Amsterdam
Immigration authorities cast doubt on the motives of marriages between African nationals and Europeans, violating these couples’ right to family life
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Business + Economy
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Xinyuan Wang, UCL
China's social credit system has been described as a 'dystopian nightmare straight out of Black Mirror' but many citizens think it will help fight fraud and bring about a better society.
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Juan Grigera, King's College London
The new government of Alberto Fernandez must now deal with Argentina's least favourite international organisation.
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Politics + Society
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Kathleen Stein-Smith, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Better job prospects and richer lives are among the many reasons to learn a foreign language, an expert on foreign language instruction writes.
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Rubén G. Mendoza, California State University, Monterey Bay
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