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Backsliding or Normalization? What is Driving the Changes to Chilean Voting Laws

by Kaya Groff | Dec 5, 2025 | University of Georgia

In September of 2025, just months before the presidential election, two contentious reforms were passed to change voting laws in Chile to curb the voting capacity and the obligation to vote for non-citizen residents in Chile. Not only will non-citizens be exempt from...
Punished for Protest: International Students Detained for Opposing the Genocide in Gaza

Punished for Protest: International Students Detained for Opposing the Genocide in Gaza

by Pamela Arjona | Apr 5, 2025 | Boston University

On March 9th, Mahmoud Khalil was detained in his apartment in New York. President Trump claimed at the beginning of his term that he would ensure the investigation and detainment of international students who spoke out against the genocide in Gaza. It wasn’t long...

A Turning Point for Immigration Reform in the 2024 Presidential Election

by ponceflores.1@osu.edu | Oct 10, 2024 | Ohio State University

The failure to address immigration in formal debate is something that has happened for at least a decade now! The failure to EVEN have discourse about immigration is hypocritical; I would go as far as saying it is ironic. The United States of America, which is...

Sign of the Times: Viktor Orban’s Anti-Democratic and Xenophobic Anti-Immigration Campaign

by Elizabeth Meyers | Nov 27, 2022 | Boston University

Across the bucolic Hungarian countryside, in cities and villages both large and small, massive billboards and signs dot the landscape. Upon closer inspection, these signs are covered in xenophobic tropes and manipulated images, depicting a flood of immigrants with the...

Haitian Deportation and the Breakdown of the Democracy in the Dominican Republic

by Alice Scollins | Nov 22, 2022 | Boston University

The Dominican Republic has been an established democracy since the 1960s when it established itself as such in their constitution in 1966. During the 1960s and 70s the DR transformed their economy and had their first peaceful transition of power during the 1966...
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