Editor's note

Two years ago this month, Canada made international headlines by announcing it would take in 25,000 refugees from Syria. Nightly newscasts featured Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warmly welcoming Syrians who had finally escaped their war-wracked country. But over the last year, there’s been a different refugee story playing out in Canada. Petra Molnar of the University of Toronto, and postdoctoral research fellow Stephanie J. Silverman, write about Canada’s immigration detention centres where four people have died since March 2016.

As the political crisis continues to unfold in Zimbabwe, military historian Rut Diamint of Argentina – a country painfully acquainted with dictatorship – expresses doubt that this week’s coup d’etat will help democratize the African nation. And, British academic James Hamill wonders if the future of Zimbabwe is “Mugabeism without Mugabe?”

Lee-Anne Goodman

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