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Cities of migration: what works to integrate urban migrants?, Jessica Mai Sims Mayor John DeStefano led a ground-breaking initiative in the city of New Haven, Connecticut, to create a city identity card for its residents regardless of their citizenship status. In 2007, the Elm City Resident Card (Elm City being the nickname... Read more » Integration: a two way process, Juan Camilo ‘Multiculturalism has failed’ stated Angela Merkel over the weekend, the most recent amongst European leaders to express concern over the long-term integration of migrants. In a pattern that is now becoming familiar across Europe, Merkel’s... Read more » Sterilisation: the fight for bodily integrity, Aziza Ahmed and Jennifer Gatsi Mallet After another week of testimony, the cases of forced and coerced sterilization of HIV positive women being heard in the Namibian courts have once again been postponed – this time until January of 2011. Accessing justice has been a long process... Read more » Dignity denied, Francisca Eight years ago, November 5th, was the worst and the best day of my life. After nine months of worrying and apprehension, I learned that I had delivered a healthy baby boy. At the same time, I also received the devastating news that during my... Read more » Ukraine’s constitutional debate: finding the way forward, Andreas Umland The various political crises of the past fifteen years have amply demonstrated that the Ukrainian Constitution, whether in its 1996 or 2004version, is in need of revision. But the arguments about constitutional reform being advanced in the... Read more » Chilean déjà vu: footnote to a drama, Malcolm Coad The story of the thirty-three trapped Chilean miners and their rescue was remarkable for many things. One of them - for this observer at least - was the odd sense of deja vu that it brought. For this was not the first time that Chile has appeared on... Read more » One-and-a-half state solution: Israeli-Palestinian ‘final status’, Saeed Rahnema It will take nothing short of a miracle for the current US-spearheaded peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, ambitiously aimed at the ‘final status’, to achieve any meaningful outcome. Resolving all the main issues requires... Read more » Preserving the 'Factory of Death', Niels Kraaier After almost half a century of communist repression that followed the Second World War, Poland seems to have finally entered a better future. The country’s accession to the European Union in 2004 has triggered an impressive national metamorphosis.... Read more »