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Issue 10.1

Criminalizing "Immigrant" Youth In France
Susan Terrio

French legislators and justice officials have fundamentally revised what was once a model system of juvenile justice, imposing harsher penalties for youth offenses in the face of a media panic over so-called "new delinquents," typically the children and grandchildren of North and West African immigrants from former French colonies.

The Hindutva View of History: Rewriting Textbooks in India and the United States
Kamala Visweswaran, Michael Witzel, Nandini Manjrekar,
Dipta Bhog, Uma Chakravarti

Organizations associated with India's BJP political party and the Sangh Parivar have attempted to fundamentally and inaccurately revise textbooks to propagate a Hindu nationalist view in Californian and Indian schoolbooks.
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