Category: immigration
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The rise of political populism
There is a worrying trend worldwide and that is the movement away from mainstream politics towards populist politics. What makes populism so dominant as a narrative can be underpinned by a disconnect between the politician and the electorate. The disenfranchised electorate argue that they have not been heard and that they are being ignored by…
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Immigration in Europe and America
Illegal migration is not a new argument, the US and Europe have been struggling with arguments concerning illegal migration for generations, but the mass movement of people has intensified the political and national arguments of states. Britain, a country with a large migrant population is determined to find an argument that challenges the illegal migrants…
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The Syrian problem
The Middle East welcomed Syria back into the Arab League, and yet the country is still divided through conflict. By welcoming al-Assad back into the fold of the Arab League, Arab leaders who once provided the weapons and finance to oust him have taken a step back from pressuring the regime. If anything it was…
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Europe immigration
There are 447.2 million inhabitants living in the European Union, 23.7 million non European Union citizens and there were 37.5 million people born outside the European Union, respectively 5.3 percent of the European Unions population and 8.4 percent of all European Union inhabitants. The European Union argues that the share of the foreign born population…