Across South America, millions of Venezuelans have crossed borders seeking safety, work, and stability. Their journeys involve shifting visa rules, crowded terminals, improvised shelters, and informal transport. These obstacles create opportunities for criminal groups to exploit people with few alternatives. Tren de Aragua, a gang that emerged in a Venezuelan prison and expanded across the region, illustrates this problem. Its presence across South America has sometimes been

This year marks the 26th anniversary of the fall of Slobodan Milošević’s regime in the Bulldozer Revolution that took place on 5 October 2000. Twenty-six years later, however, Serbia faces many of the same challenges. Under the rule of the autocratic Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and its dominant political figure, the former president Aleksandar Vučić, blatant corruption and institutional deterioration have remained constant. This year also marks a turning point: after near

Immigration enforcement operations, deportation debates, and political rhetoric have once again placed migration at the center of public discussion in the United States and across Europe. Yet these debates increasingly affect people who are not immigrants at all. Citizens, permanent residents, and long-established communities continue to have their belonging questioned because of their language, appearance, religion, or cultural background. If citizenship is meant to guarante