Features

Data-snatching, AI and eye-spy: some of the new technologies undermining migrants’ rights.

Governments are increasingly using surveillance and big data to track immigrants. Gaby del Valle reports from the US, where activists are trying to hold data-mining firm Palantir to account.

Ruben Andersson traces the roots of a Freudian fixation.

Syrian artist Amel al-Zakout nearly drowned in the Mediterranean Sea after her boat capsized en route to Greece. Volunteer lifeguard Gerard Canals was part of the rescue operation. Hazel Healy put the two in touch with each other to speak for the first time since the shipwreck.

The threat of Brexit has caused great anxiety about the return of a ‘hard border’ in Ireland. Yet it’s minority communities who have the most to fear, writes Luke Butterly.

Alex Sager imagines a time when all people are free to move.

Planet earth is not the same size for everybody. This infographic shows where you can travel to without a visa, depending on your nationality.

A network of solidarity exists among and alongside those who move, and stay, without permission. Hazel Healy profiles three initiatives. ‘Is it fair that Europe walks as it wants in Africa but not the opposite?’ ‘Once you help, you cannot close your eyes’ ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’.

Links for campaigning and more reading on Borders.

People have always moved and cultures have always mingled. So why the myopic obsession with borders, asks Hazel Healy.

In a groundbreaking new work, Trifonia Melibea Obono has sought out and recorded the unheard stories of lesbian and bisexual women living in the small West African state of Equatorial Guinea.

With a year to go until Myanmar’s next general election, political activism is being pushed to the periphery. Charlotte England reports.

Under a tree in the studios of Bangladesh’s struggling film industry, women extras in the shadows of glamour wait for work. They tell Sophie Hemery and Alice McCool their stories.

Insecure people can be highly susceptible to false narratives purporting to explain their precarious situation​, argues Helena Norberg-Hodge.

Amy Hawkins surveys the cultural landscape in the world’s second-largest economy.

China is Africa’s largest trading partner and has become deeply involved with the continent’s politics in recent years. This has not been without its controversies. Christine Mungai reflects on the past, present and future of the relationship between these two powerhouses.

Since 2016, at least a million people have been sent to re-education camps as part of the Chinese government’s persecution of the Uyghur people. Yohann Koshy speaks to anthropologist Darren Byler to find out what is going on in China’s northwest province.

Ma Tianjie examines the limits of China’s ‘ecological nationalism’.

Where’s the money going?; More money, more problems; Climate breakdown; In focus.

Campaigning and more reading on China.