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...though a dramatic increase in immigration would probably alleviate world poverty and generate wealth more than any other policy, faster flows are still seen as too risky and unguarded by the left, and too extreme by the right. Although it’s difficult to realize a world with stateless globetrotters and no borders—such a romantic place will probably never exist—it is in both the moral and economic interest of individuals in developed and developing countries to push for much higher rates of immigration between states. The movement for human mobility has received ardent...
...film that would be entertaining and, as a by-product of the subject matter, perhaps be a catharsis," Abrams says. "We wanted to let people live through their wildest fears but be in a safe place, where the enemy is the size of a skyscraper instead of some stateless, unseen cowardly terrorist...
...Unfortunately, even today, the rights and security of Haitians and Dominico-Haitians are tenuous at best. These stateless individuals, who make up more than 60 percent of the Dominican Republic’s agricultural workforce, are often confined to working villages called bateyes, which are essentially labor camps. A 2007 report by Amnesty International described the Dominican Republic’s 400 bateyes as having living conditions “among the worst in the country,” without access to “the most basic public services such as health care, education, running water, and a sewage...
...going back to Baghdad is not something a rational person would choose to do—exceptions should be made. When al-Dewachi went to England to do field research for his dissertation on displaced Iraqis, he could not have expected to become essentially stateless. A Ph.D. candidate in social anthropology, al-Dewachi has been studying at Harvard since 2001 with a strict, single-entry visa. The U.S. applied such stringent rules because under Saddam Hussein’s regime, Iraq was viewed as a “state supporting terrorism.” But regime change failed to upgrade...
Dewachi said he hoped that his ordeal would draw attention to the situation of stateless Iraqis...