TEDxValenciaSt - Matt Johnson - Global Migration: Humanity's Best Opportunity
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Matt Johnson wants to change the way people migrate around the world. As an economic migrant himself, he saw firsthand the gulf between the ease with which people from developed countries migrate and the difficulty, friction, cost, pain, and suffering faced by migrants from developing countries. Matt is an entrepreneur in San Francisco. He has b... Read more
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- -: TEDxValenciaSt - Matt Johnson - Global Migration: Humanity's Best Opportunity
April 19, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Matt Johnson wants to change the way people migrate around the world. As an economic migrant himself, he saw firsthand the gulf between the ease with which people from developed countries migrate and the difficulty, friction, cost, pain, and suffering faced by migrants from developing countries. ...
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- -: TEDxDoiSuthep - Mohezin Tejani - Global Nomads Bridging Gaps Between Cultures
August 3, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Mohezin Tejani, an Indian-Shia Muslim by ancestry, is a political refugee from Idi Amin's Uganda and an award-winning writer. Liberated from the confines of his own culture by political realities, he set out at the age of twenty-one to learn how to be rooted in the absence of a place to call home...
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- -: TEDxEastEnd - Bridget Anderson - Imagining a world without borders
September 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Bridget Anderson is a Senior Research Fellow at COMPAS at the University of Oxford. Her work primarily focuses on Migration and the Labour Market, with a particular interest in domestic workers and au pairs, trafficking, immigration enforcement, citizenship and the politics of immigration control...
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- -: TEDxEastEnd - Mihir Bose - The story of my father, the story of myself
September 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Mihir Bose is an Award Winning Journalist and Author. He writes a weekly "Big Sports Interview" for the London Evening Standard, a Sunday Times column, and also writes and broadcasts on a range of social and historical issues as well as sport. His latest book on the power of modern sport is due t...
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- -: TEDxEastEnd - Danny Dorling - A World without border controls in a century
September 27, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Danny Dorling is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. He went to various schools in Oxford and to University in Newcastle upon Tyne. He has worked in Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds and New Zealand. With a group of colleagues he helped create the website www.worldmapper.org wh...
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- -: TEDxEastEnd - Penny Wilson - Play
September 27, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Penny Wilson grew up in the South East of England and played on the rolling hills of the South Downs and beside the sea. These childhood experiences influenced and continue to inform and inspire her work. She studied illustration but her career began in earnest when she started Playworking with ...
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- -: TEDxEastEnd - Shizzio - there is no spoon: how to move beyond our own borders
September 29, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Hailed as the Asian Eminem by East London Grime legend Lethal Bizzle, Shizzio hardly needs an introduction. Born and bred on the borders of East London & Essex, this rapper has single handedly battled and navigated his way into an undeniable realm. His first ever video featured Tim Westwood & Kat...
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- -: TEDxEastEnd - Paul Kerswill - Who's an Eastender now?
September 29, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Paul Kerswill is committed to understanding how language is moulded by the societies in which it is spoken. His latest research is a long-term study of 'Multicultural London English' in the East End -- misleadingly dubbed 'Jafaican' by the media. He has the dubious honour of being the first diale...
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- -: TEDxEastEnd - Barbara Roche - the British story of migration
October 3, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Barbara Roche is a former Government Minister and MP who was a Minister of State in the Home Office, Cabinet Office and ODPM. She was also Financial Secretary to the Treasury and a DTI Minister. As Minister of State at the Home Office she was the Immigration Minister and has been a long-standing ...
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- -: TEDxEastEnd - Faisel Rahman - why we need to revolutionise personal finance
October 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Faisel Rahman has a background in international development, including Grameen Bank and the World Bank, where he focused on developing the microfinance sector and expanding it around micro enterprise. He also briefly worked as an underwriter for a syndicate at Lloyds of London and co-authored a n...
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