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A United States federal court may have blocked President Donald Trump's January 27 travel ban against Muslims, but the impacts of the executive order are already being felt at the US-Mexico border.
Ariadna Estévez reports from Tijuana, where 30,000 Haitian asylum-seekers — many of them young professionals — wait in legal limbo, toiling for pennies in black-market gigs and dodging human traffickers. It's the refugee crisis nobody is talking about.
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Just what they say about Mexico: so close to the USA, so far from God.
Edgard Garrido/Reuters
Ariadna Estévez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
President Trump's executive orders are already causing chaos at the US-Mexico border, where 30,000 Haitian asylum-seekers are now trapped in legal limbo. It's the refugee crisis no one talks about.
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Environment + Energy
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Hanan Almahasheer, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Mangroves are superheroes on both land and sea, storing carbon and providing protection for coasts.
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Business + Economy
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Henrik Emilsson, Malmö University; Nahikari Irastorza, Malmö University
Sweden is not suffering a crime wave because of immigrants, but there are real obstacles to overcome in getting refugees into employement.
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Haley J. Swedlund, Radboud University
The pervasive new argument is that China is upending the dominance of traditional Africa aid donors from the West. But a new study shows that while China is making inroads, the West is staying put.
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Politics + Society
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George Ogola, University of Central Lancashire
In Africa, the idea of a post-truth era - which by implication fundamentally presupposes the existence of an era in which ‘truth’ was self-evident - is folly.
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