"Why should my gratitude be any more explicit than yours?"

"Why should my gratitude be any more explicit than yours?"

Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee, on everything newcomers keep from the native-born

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Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
Loving a country sneaks up on you

Loving a country sneaks up on you

"It's a melancholy feeling to be othered by the State just as I'm starting to feel like I belong here."

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Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
Will the Brexit generation be the next Windrush scandal?

Will the Brexit generation be the next Windrush scandal?

What went wrong for Caribbean immigrants to the UK could befall Europeans a generation later. I explore past and future with Amelia Gentleman.

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Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
We are one (literally)

We are one (literally)

A new format for Borderline's first birthday. This week, the EU settlement scheme, Refugee Week, Kamala Harris, the G7 and the Fastly outage. Tuck in.

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Isabelle Roughol
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Tim Martin knows exactly what he's doing. / Members' letter #17

Tim Martin knows exactly what he's doing. / Members' letter #17

The Wetherspoon boss defends a world where immigration is not a right of individuals, but a privilege of employers.

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Isabelle Roughol
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"Good stuff doesn't float to the top, it claws its way to the middle" / Members' letter #16

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
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How to move around the world, raise a teenager and not go crazy

How to move around the world, raise a teenager and not go crazy

Hormones, acne, heartbreak… and figuring out what country you even belong to. Adolescence is even trickier when you’re a global kid.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
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How to raise global teens and be kinder to migrants / Members' letter #15

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Isabelle Roughol
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