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Liv Ekdawi Feb 25, 2026 7 min read
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On 27 January, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced a decree to create a legal pathway for undocumented migrants to gain residential status in Spain. While…

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Liv Ekdawi Feb 25, 2026 5 min read
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Image credit by Andrew Shiva. Used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license via Wikimedia Commons For many of us, studying at the University of Oxford…

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