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People who’ve gotten nose jobs are also trying to revert to a more natural look.
An expert explains why a recent plan to include a question about citizenship in the 2020 census is unjust, both for citizens and noncitizens.
Australian governments are faced with a choice: make the difficult decisions to fix planning systems so more houses can be built, or tap the brakes on Australia's migrant intake.
The demographics, which include declining numbers of adult children free to step up and potentially fewer immigrants, suggest that this big problem society faces will get bigger.
As the American colonists famously said: 'No taxation without representation.'
Australia has had a large influx of skilled migrants in recent decades. Better educated and more highly paid than past generations of migrants, they are also creating a different sort of community.
Talking about mental health challenges is not always so easy for young immigrant and refugee men in Canada, according to research from the University of British Columbia.
As Bell Let's Talk Day approaches, we profile mental health experts practicing culturally sensitive treatments for depression and anxiety among Canada's immigrant, refugee and Indigenous communities.
Electronically monitoring migrants and refugees may seem like a humane alternative to detention, but it's rife with problems and still criminalizes would-be immigrants.
Spanish is not overtaking English in the US, despite political fearmongering. In fact, due to the 'three-generation pattern,' Spanish speaking in immigrant families tends to decline over time.
An anthropologist went to Mexico and interviewed more than 50 people who were deported. It was like being sent to the moon, they told him.
If they pass a deal on DACA, it's a win for both sides of the aisle and thousands of ‘Dreamers,’ but a loss for millions of undocumented immigrants.
U.S. President Donald Trump and his apologists might be surprised what the economic data says about immigrants who come to Canada from the so-called “shithole” countries.
World AIDS Day is an opportunity to discuss how current medical inadmissibility rules for newcomers are out of touch with Canadian values and need to be reformed.
Trump's decision to end the DACA program, as well as his support for a bill that would drastically curb legal immigration, would hurt the US workers he says he's trying to help.
At a time when anti-immigrant sentiment was widespread, the Sacco and Vanzetti trial starkly divided American opinion and stirred up a violent backlash around the world.
Robots have the potential to help support a growing population that wants to age in their own homes. But those helpful machines won't be the humanoid butlers of science fiction.
Whether it's due to native language loss or unsupported high school curricula, the lack of bilingualism in the US is notable. Why can't more Americans speak another language? How should that change?
In Europe's refugee squats, dignified existence and political resistance go hand in hand.
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Professor of Sociology and Program Head, New York University
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Reader in Comparative Social Science, Department of Lifelong and Comparative Education, UCL
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Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Professor, University of California, Merced
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Director, Centre for International Mental Health, University of Melbourne
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John Daley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Chief Executive Officer, Grattan Institute
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ARC Future Fellow, Griffith University
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Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Chancellor's Professor of Education and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Research Fellow, Sydney Democracy Network, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Bristol
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Professor of Sports Enterprise, University of Salford
