OPINION

49 View from Africa

Nanjala Nyabola on Kenya’s embrace of the Chinese development model. Plus: Polyp’s Big Bad World.

59 View from India

Nilanjana Bhowmick takes apart the latest viral hashtag campaign in India. Plus: Marc Roberts’ Only Planet.

73 View from America

Mark Engler shows how Trump’s migration policies are linked to the violent legacy of US foreign policy. Plus: Kate Evans’ Thoughts from a Broad.

FEATURES

50 What rape tells us about society

Sohaila Abdulali explains what we talk about when we talk about rape.

56 Can torturing babies be OK?

Valentino Vecchietti calls for an end to ‘normalizing’ surgery carried out on intersex babies.

60 Photo essay – ‘This is not a life’

Anne Paq documents the daily experience of Palestinian workers who make the cumbersome and humiliating crossing from Bethlehem to Israel.

64 The long read – The Merit Trap

New Internationalist co-founder Peter Adamson dives deep into the perils of creating a ‘fair’ society based on meritocracy.

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MIXED MEDIA

74 Spotlight – Jerusalem In My Heart

Radwan Ghazi Moumneh talks to Louise Gray.

76 Book reviews

The Incendiaries by RO Kwon; Betraying Big Brother by Leta Hong Fincher; A Radical History of the World by Neil Faulkner; Rupture by Manuel Castells.

78 Film reviews

Tehran Taboo, written and directed by Ali Soozandeh; The Heiresses (Las Herederas), written and directed by Marcello Martinessi.

79 Music reviews

Sound the People by Red Baraat; Crave by Léonie Pernet.

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ONLINE FEATURES newint.org

8.8 Can African and Asian workers challenge

exploitation in the gig economy? Workers are creating self-organized digital communities to support and help each other. Alex J Wood and Mark Graham ask.

7.8 Free Shahidul!

Bangladeshi police abducted New Internationalist contributor Shahidul Alam on 5 August. Chris Brazier explains what Alam’s detention means.

16.7 Next generation of Chagos exiles resists

deportation First they were evicted by the British from their island home. Now, descendants of Chagossians are facing deportation from the same country, writes Katie McQue.

30.7 EU migration deal – is it the answer?

The new rightwing Italian government has demanded the inclusion of ‘offshore processing centres’ for migrants. Nando Sigona reports.

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