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Reports
From Current Fellows
(March 2008)
FRANCE Immigration is Always Political PARIS–France’s national museum and immigration research center, Cite national de l’histoire d’immigration opened in early October to governmental silence and amidst anger and controversy over new policies toward immigrants. In a showy gesture, some weeks earlier, eight prominent academic immigration experts wrote a public letter… FULL STORY |
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GUATEMALA From Bulls-eye to Backdrop: Santiago Atitlán Eleven Years After Guatemala’s Civil War Even before he glanced at me with his pensive eyes, I knew what was coming. I’d spent the better part of two days walking through the hills that cup this lakeside Mayan pueblo with Domingo Damian, a former guerrilla … FULL STORY |
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PAKISTAN Maulana Fazlur Rahman gripped a sword with two hands, and raised it over his head before 25,000 fervent Islamist supporters on a steamy summer night last year in Lahore. The crowd chanted “Islamic Revolution!” Rahman — just over 5-feet tall, with a thick, tin-colored beard, and his signature orange turban — finally put down the sword… FULL STORY |
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BRAZIL In my last newsletter (RS-3), I gave an introduction to some of the forces at work in São Paulo’s ever-accelerating gentrification, and highlighted how street performances are portraying and … FULL STORY |
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