This piece is an op-ed that explores the future of socialism in the Democratic Party.

This opinion piece argues the power and potential of the sister city relationship in promoting sustainable citizen diplomacy. This piece highlights the initiation of two sister city relationships by Senator Bernie Sanders, in his missions to set national precedence during heightened political conflict during the Cold War.

An overview of the nature of voting rights in the US in the 21st Century.

Cancel Culture in an Era of Bernie Sanders

I examine the process of committee appointments and hypothesize why Senator Sanders and the Democratic party submit themselves to this odd relationship.

This article analyses the engagement in cultural and creative practices of people of South Asian heritage in the borough of Tower Hamlets in London and in Loughborough, East Midlands. Both locations are home to a number of community groups engaged in creative and cultural activities and, by focusing on selected case studies, we argue that the arts play a key role in maintaining and claiming South Asian heritage/s in Britain. Comparing these two sites and the activities of key groups located there paves the way for an understanding of the role of the arts in the negotiation of diasporic identities in the UK: these activities and their broader collective engagement offer insights into participants’ experiences of inclusion and exclusion, intercultural relations and solidarity.

The Shadow of the Wall: Violence and Migration on the U.S.-Mexico Border is a collection of articles from the Migrant Border Crossing Study (MBCS).As such, it contains a multiplicity of voices discussing a variety of topics with a heavy emphasis on statistics.This book was written for scholars and policy makers, and presents an innovative way to research and understand the problems that migrants from Mexico face on their journey to the United States.The results of this study provide valuable insight into the failures of the United States' current border policies.The drawback of the approach taken, however, is that the information presented is not easily accessible by the general population, limiting the impact of a book that could have directly impacted current debates on immigration policy.The opening chapter demonstrates the value of the post-deportation methodology by expanding the reach of existing quantitative studies on migration from Mexico, and shows how the MBCS bridges the gap between qualitative and quantitative research in this field.The authors then describe Wave I, focusing on unauthorized migration into Southern Arizona, Wave II, which addresses issues of violence and security, and Wave III, based on findings from two hundred interviews that were conducted during the study period.Herein, the authors describe in painstaking detail the research site, selection criteria, sampling, weighting the data and comparable data sources on repatriated Mexican migrants, as well as the limitations of Waves I and II.The background information to the project is important for methodological issues, and the approach taken, that links the quantitative and the qualitative data, is constructive and successful.The personal stories are captivating, and they capture the raw emotion that people experience in the shadow of the wall.The downside of such personal stories, especially those abuse, is that they can be dismissed as "isolated incidents" (19).By using both qualitative accounts of the migrant experience along with quantitative data allows the authors to truly capture the frequency of migrant abuse and mistreatment.Chapter 2 is based on qualitative research from seventy-one interviews that detail how migrants react to increased border enforcement.Often, migrants make decisions that will increase their chances of death while decreasing their vulnerability to structural violence.One example is the decision by mules to bring drugs into the US without the aid of coyotes, who are expensive, and apt to rob their clients.This is an example of making the "best" of a situation, which often results in violence that is exacerbated by current border policies.This article would have been even more poignant had it included more quotations personal stories from the 71 interviews, of which only "Jose's Story" is told in its entirety.Chapter 3 provides insight into the research team's internal debate on whether to continue researching after a shooting occurred near where they were conducting research.One researcher suggested that no research is worth losing one's life over, while another proposed that the team continue their research as long as they were not facing as much risk as their interviewees.The third researcher opinioned that, although the violence was not a direct threat to the researchers, public security was not guaranteed, so the risk was unnecessary.After presenting these three opinions, the authors discuss the difficulties of researching violence, and the article ends with a call to action for other researchers.We need to confront the challenges of working in these environments head on and recognize new and important issues that are influencing our field sites.Yes, it is scary.Yes, it is dangerous.Yes, it is more work.But it is necessary if we want our

Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control: Enforcing the Boundaries of Belonging, edited by Mary Bosworth, Apla Parmar, and Yolanda Vazquez, is an anthology of essays involving the intersectionality of race separated into four sections: 1) Race, Borders, and Social Control; 2) Race, Policing, and Security; 3) Race, Courts, and the Law; and 4) Race, Detention, and Deportation. As an introduction to intersectionality between race, and gender and class, this anthology gives a somewhat comprehensive compilation of migration issues stemming in countries that exercise firm control over migration of incoming migrants and exiting migrants. Each article focuses on an issue ongoing with a specific population of people, and how the mechanisms in place for migration function criminally and divisively.