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Border cities

29 October 2022

  • Migrants crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico to the United States near Eagle Pass, Texas.

    ‘A change of heart’: sympathies shift over migrants in Texas border town

    Eagle Pass has been a way station for undocumented immigrants for years, but recently their numbers have grown – and residents are divided

26 June 2019

  • ‘You cannot step into the same river twice, but you can step into the same story again and again and again. A story of desperate need and desperate hope that drives people to risk everything in uncertain and unfamiliar waters.’ (This photograph was first published in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada.)

    This photo is about bodies – migrant bodies, and our body politic. Don't look away

    Sabrina Vourvoulias
    Monday’s image of a drowned two-year-old and her father will haunt us. I hope it changes us, too

25 April 2019

  • ‘The fluidity of border life has long represented an affront to the administrators of a nation that from its inception have drawn a bright, brutal line around racial groups.’

    The border wall isn't just a dividing line – it's a monument against racial progress

    Michelle García
    Many in south Texas see the border as a symbol of a national identity that not only excludes but also marginalizes them

10 May 2017

  • Would-be immigrants sit atop a border fence separating Morocco from the north African Spanish enclave of Melilla

    In limbo in Melilla: the young refugees trapped in Spain's African enclave

    Reinforced fences in this Spanish enclave in Morocco are designed to shut a notorious gateway to Europe – but have left a fractured and anxious city

25 January 2017

  • People walk on the international border bridge Paso del Norte to cross to El Paso from Juarez

    The future of the US-Mexican border: inside the 'split city' of El Paso-Juárez

    One has been called the world’s most violent city. The other, the safest in its nation. Schoolchildren commute daily between the ‘binational’ cities of Juárez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas – but with Trump in office, will border divisions grow?

17 January 2017

  • A group of children sit on the shores of the Congo river in Brazzaville looking across to Kinshasa

    Face-off over the Congo: the long rivalry between Kinshasa and Brazzaville

    It’s only a five-minute flight from Kinshasa to its rival city, Brazzaville – but as the DRC slides into a bloody political crisis, an international border, the Congo river and centuries of colonialism continue to separate central Africa’s volatile twins

12 January 2017

  • File photo of a wall marking the boundary of the United Nations buffer zone as seen from the Greek Cypriot-controlled area of central Nicosia<br>A wall marking the boundary of the United Nations buffer zone is seen from the Greek Cypriot-controlled area of central Nicosia in this March 10, 2014 file picture. Cyprus is closer than ever to ending a four-decade partition and its Turkish and Greek sides could agree the text of a deal by May followed by a referendum, the Turkish Cypriot official responsible for foreign relations said. The island's Greek and Turkish communities have lived estranged since 1974, when Turkey invaded the north after a brief Greek-inspired coup, though the seeds of partition were sown soon after independence from Britain in 1960. REUTERS/Neil Hall

    Fear and loathing in Nicosia: will peace talks unify Europe's last divided capital?

    For 43 years a UN-patrolled no-man’s land has dissected Cyprus’ capital. As Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders meet for final peace talks, Helena Smith, who grew up on the island, questions whether reunification has a chance

14 November 2016

  • The unfinished New Yalu River bridge that was designed to connect China’s Dandong and and North Korea’s Sinuiju.

    Unfinished bridge reveals broken state of North Korea's alliance with China

    It was a £250m project to strengthen China’s bond with its isolated neighbour. But two years on from its expected completion, the bridge joining Dandong and Sinuiju remains unfinished: an emblem of an uneasy alliance gone sour

1 July 2014

  • The border fence that divides Mexico from the United States runs out to sea in Tijuana.

    Tijuana: life on the political equator

    Divided cities: For Radical Cities author Justin McGuirk the frontier zone where the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed fizzes with potential

14 May 2014

  • The city of Brcko in Bosnia-Herzegovina

    Welcome to Brčko, Europe’s only free city and a law unto itself

    Unshackled from Bosnia’s bloody history, seemingly thriving as a beacon of multi-ethnic harmony, is Brčko a new model for urban success?
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