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Companies face pressure to provide career opportunities, and better pay and conditions for low-wage workers, many of whom are on the COVID-19 pandemic front line. For many, making…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB253991
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Like the US State Department, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has experienced a long-term diminution of its budgets and standing as foreign policymaking is dispersed…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB229604
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Before COVID-19 intervened, economic growth, rising wages, the development of high-tech sectors and Brexit were encouraging immigration. In 2019, 51% of immigrants were…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB254803
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Both candidates are espousing populist policies. However, Jokowi currently leads in the opinion polls, ahead of the election on April 17.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB241958
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The US South, defined as the eleven states of the 19th-century Confederacy, was a Democratic stronghold for 100 years after the Civil War. Now, with some of the country’s heaviest…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB266402
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Social mobility in China.
The poorly publicised law provides for an entirely new visa system, focused on streamlining guest-worker and skilled worker permits from third countries. It addresses an…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB285183
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The meeting with Adams indicates that Biden is moving gun violence up his administration’s agenda, with an emphasis on reducing the movement of illegal firearms. Policing and…
He said he was seeking a fresh five-year mandate for his People’s Action Party (PAP). Singapore is being forced to re-evaluate its economic policies and place in the global order…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB253580
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While his term limits have been extended, some of his security service chiefs are approaching compulsory retirement age, in a year when the Kremlin is relying more and more on the…