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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 58–69.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Guillaume Darribau; Brenna Bhandar Since the Great Recession of 2008, hundreds of thousands of Spaniards have been forced from their homes. For over five years, photographer Guillaume Darribau has documented the Spanish neighborhood hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis, the area of Barcelona known...
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Published: 01 September 2017
Sura and Yara ride a scooter in their neighborhood in Jubail Industrial City. We can’t drive cars in Saudi, as women, but we can drive scooters. I’m lucky I have two daughters. Sura and Yara understand each other—and me. If I had one, she’d feel lonely. If I had a son, I don’t think I’d be as good
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 19–24.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Matias Echanove; Rahul Srivastava Eight years ago, architects Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava set up their offices in Dharavi, a homegrown neighborhood in Mumbai. Instead of denigrating Dharavi as a “slum,” Echanove and Srivastava celebrate its vitality and adaptability. They point...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 110.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Christopher Shay Throughout history, politicians have wanted to demolish the “noisy, dirty, and confusing” poor neighborhoods of the inner city. World Policy Journal editor Christopher Shay argues that leaders shouldn’t be so disdainful of these areas. Diverse, complex communities can better resist...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 81–83.
Published: 01 December 2016
... develops a more intentional foreign policy, the country's influence won't extend beyond its neighborhood. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 Russia Russian foreign policy Russian politics LYALKA LYALKA Russia wants the world to treat it like the global power the Soviet...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 112–117.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... A recruiter for Avon, she was making her rounds in the neighborhoods outside of Choloma, a city in the far north of the country, when she saw a group of young men carrying big, heavy bags. At first she didn’t realize what she was seeing, but it dawned on her quickly. She averted her eyes and walked away...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 41–48.
Published: 01 June 2011
...—in the neighborhood of Carcelén, students are gearing up for the annual election of the school’s “princess.” This is no suburban prom queen selection. The election takes a beauty contest and transforms it into a grand display of wealth. One candidate is chosen from each of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 20–21.
Published: 01 March 2016
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A look at London’s least white and most white neighborhoods, Newham
and Havering respectively, reveals that in poorer neighborhoods, blacks...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 99–108.
Published: 01 June 2017
... with laws that bolster tenants’ rights and cap rent hikes. They must keep neighborhoods livable, and maintain affordable social and health insurance for artists and writers. Berlin’s left-wing administration, which entered city halls in 2016, has pledged to do this, but so far we’ve seen very little...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 21–30.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Josse de Voogd © World Policy Institute 2014 2014 World Policy Institute Nijmegen, Netherlands—Autumn falls in the leafy eastern neighborhoods of the Dutch city of Nijmegen. The vines winding up the sides of the late 19th century brick homes are turning yellow and brown. Inside, large book...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 63–69.
Published: 01 June 2018
... buildings facing Abdel Kader’s raised scimitar. The monumental substitution now distracts from the severe infrastructural neglect in both traditional Muslim districts and in the colonial neighborhoods of contemporary Algiers. When the French left Algeria after 132 years of colonial rule, they left...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 93–104.
Published: 01 September 2016
... teams have attempted to build confidence is by killing hundreds of suspects, which include many of the gangsters and militants that have been terrorizing Karachi’s neighborhoods for years. The father of a slain police officer told me that an encounter specialist like Marwat had even offered him...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 93–102.
Published: 01 March 2011
... is lucky. A group of American lawyers helped pay for this home. But she is literally one in a million. There is no immediate hope for the estimated one million people living in Port-au-Prince's tent cities. The government and many aid groups want to move people to their old neighborhoods, and build new...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (3): 61–70.
Published: 01 September 2000
.... Then he was laid off tersection of Reforma and Insurgentes Ave
and applied for a position with the Munici nues, because many wealthy adolescents pass
pal Police, after being encouraged to do so through there at night, drunk and speeding.
by a neighborhood friend: “As a policeman, But better yet...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 99–106.
Published: 01 September 2013
... for goods along busy streets, constantly interrupted by the hooting of matatus , local public transport vehicles, and the shouting of pushcart drivers, known as mkokotenis . This neighborhood is no place for the squeamish. The matatus and the mkokotenis make their way through deep, water-filled...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 14–21.
Published: 01 June 2018
... made it a priority to discuss fascism and racism that no longer exist today.” In the lead-up to Election Day, she went so far as to hold rallies in immigrant neighborhoods, reading foreign-sounding names on doors out loud to show that “Italians no longer live in this country.” Traini’s shooting...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 89–99.
Published: 01 June 2011
...” in Shorbeya, a very poor Cairo neighborhood whose population approximates Anis’s “silent majority.” On a Saturday, I meet Jihan Shoukry in Heliopolis, where she is collecting bags full of grocery staples—rice, beans, and oil. She has been working with an NGO in the neighborhood for eight years, distributing...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 47–55.
Published: 01 June 2018
... . Erdoğan grew up in the 1960s in the Istanbul neighborhood of Kasımpaşa, located around an urban waterway called the Golden Horn. Since Ottoman times, Turks have used the Golden Horn to build their industries, but by the mid-20th century Kasımpaşa had become a refuge for the downtrodden. The estuary...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 88–100.
Published: 01 December 2013
... the white, native Norwegian families who quietly vote with their feet by abandoning neighborhoods in east Oslo they perceive as dominated by African and Asian immigrants. Norwegians have fewer excuses for “white flight” than most. These neighborhoods are not run-down and crime-infested. Nor...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 115–117.
Published: 01 March 2018
.... Blithely ignoring diversity and the manipulated imbalances of wealth and power, it seems nations have claimed the right to decide: You may or may not enter my country, my neighborhood, my social-security system. Lodged in the outdated concepts of nationalism, impermeable borders, and the right to private...
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