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Social Sciences Mar 14, 2024

Digital nomads: A benefit or burden for local communities?

Many criticize digital nomads for fueling gentrification and pricing out locals. Social, economic, spatial and cultural segregation between nomads and local communities has already stirred controversy from Canada to the Canary ...

Political science Mar 1, 2024

How open source tech can make Canada's immigration system fairer

Federal immigration minister Marc Miller recently announced the government is implementing a two-year cap on the number of international students admitted into Canada.

Social Sciences Dec 15, 2023

In India, computer typists embody 'fuzzy' nature of state borders

Pakistani Hindus arrive in the western Indian city of Jodhpur with hopes and plans to migrate, but before they even approach the Foreigners' Registration Office (FRO), most have to visit a typist.

Economics & Business Dec 6, 2023

'Just the rich can do it': Research shows how immigration income requirements devastate families

The government has announced a host of new restrictions aimed at cutting net migration to the UK. Headline announcements include increasing the salary requirements for skilled foreign workers from £26,200 to £38,700, and ...

Social Sciences Oct 5, 2023

Extreme emotions and emotionlessness of UK immigration system make migrants deportable and disposable

The UK's immigration system uses a combination of strong emotions combined with emotionlessness to cast migrants as simultaneously 'threatening, polluting and irrelevant'—creating a group of people who are, ultimately deportable ...

Social Sciences May 15, 2023

Opinion: Australian government must use trauma-informed approach to end uncertainty on refugee visa applications

In February this year, the Albanese government announced that thousands of refugees living in Australia who were on Temporary Protection Visas (TPV) and Safe Haven Enterprise Visas (SHEV) would now be moved onto a permanent ...

Economics & Business Mar 29, 2023

DACA has not had a negative impact on the US job market, finds study

A new study from the University of Delaware refutes a long-held talking point: the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy does not seem to have a negative impact on jobs or income.

Social Sciences Mar 13, 2023

Opinion: Fearmongering about people fleeing disasters is a dangerous and faulty narrative

The death toll from the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria has reached over 50,000 people. Over 23 million people have been affected and millions have been displaced from their homes. In Syria alone, an estimated 5.3 ...

Other Feb 21, 2023

Hong Kong revokes visa of Chinese scientist jailed over gene editing

Authorities in Hong Kong said late Tuesday they had canceled the work visa of a Chinese biophysicist who was jailed for creating the world's first gene-edited babies, throwing cold water on his plans to relocate his research ...

Other Feb 21, 2023

Scientist behind gene-edited babies eyes work in Hong Kong

A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate five years ago with claims that he made the world's first genetically edited babies said Tuesday that he hopes to research rare hereditary diseases in Hong Kong.

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