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State lines are one way to picture the US, but natural history provides another – one that shows the ancient and living connections running across the landscape.
Europe is rethinking security: as geopolitical tensions rise, Russia looms and climate risks intensify, can restoring nature help defend both nations and the planet?
The story of donkeys in Namibia is one of colonial control but also resistance.
The border agents we interviewed objected to detaining and forcibly returning irregular migrants.
Visa revocations are becoming an increasingly weaponized part of the U.S. immigration system, and in education, international students are already vulnerable to uncertain futures.
Flight Centre’s profit warning signals growing global unease with travel to the US, as safety fears and visa crackdowns deter tourists.
For many of Lebanon’s 1.5 million Syrian refugees, temporary crossing back into their war-torn homeland was a risk they felt they needed to take.
Under the terms of the deal, Israel will gradually withdraw from Lebanon, while Hezbollah isn’t allowed to rebuild near the border. But will the ceasefire hold?
Dictatorial regimes are increasingly reaching across borders to crack down on dissent or punish critics.
Last year, at least 686 migrants died trying to cross into the US from Mexico. Many had the option to call 911 but were too afraid of detection and deportation to seek help.
Border technologies, including robodogs and surveillance drones, are increasingly used to violently manage people’s movements across borders.
New research challenges the conventional wisdom that those who enjoy some form of employment and strong support networks are more inclined to attach themselves to a set geography.
Technology is transnational. It is therefore disrupting traditional notions of legal jurisdiction and regulation.
Maxim Samson speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the hidden lines that explain variations in everything from access to education to animal species
A rising number of Americans say that immigration is the country’s biggest problem. Biden called for Congress to pass a bipartisan border and immigration bill during his State of the Union.
Texans’ belief in their state’s exceptionalism has helped fuel support for the Republican state government trying to take border security and immigration enforcement into its own hands.
Canada is wasting resources, and legitimacy, conserving species that are not endangered elsewhere. Transparent cross-border considerations should inform all new conservation laws.
Religious, racial and class-based differences often get politicized.
The overturning of almost 20 years of legal precedent allowing indefinite detention is a watershed moment. But stateless people in Australia have few rights and little say over their futures.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
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Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance; Scientific Co-Director, Bridge Research Consortium, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Director, Refugee Law Lab, York University, Canada
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Researcher in International Relations and Politics, Development Studies and Borders, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of East London
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Professor of Political Sociology, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor Emerita in Constitutional Law, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Architecture, University of Sheffield; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Senior Lecturer in History, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Researcher, Indonesian Center for Law and Policy Studies (PSHK)
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Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
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Professor of Politics and International Studies, Queen's University Belfast
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Research Fellow Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group, University of Warwick