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Immigration and migration, and the issues that surround them, have become symbolic of the 21st century.

Siberian timber being delivered to China

Where empires meet

17 Mar 2011
How two ‘rising powers’ – China and Russia – interact across the border they share with resource-rich Mongolia is the focus of a network led by the...
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Rethinking

Rethinking eccentricity

01 May 2009
Miranda Gill traces shifting 19th-century perceptions of eccentricity, from its association with the intoxicating lure of modernity and fashion to the...
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River Dicle from Hasankeyf

Endangered dialects of Aramaic

01 Sep 2008
Current estimates suggest that a language dies every two weeks. Here, Geoffrey Khan describes the documentation of a group of dialects before they are...
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