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24/09/2016 GMT

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Stories from a French 'deradicalisation' centre, the US-Mexico border, Ecuador and Iraq

Boundaries are pushed at a 'deradicalisation' centre in France, in the town of McAllen on the US-Mexico border, by a transgender family in Ecuador and at a shrine in Najaf, Iraq

Owen Bennett Jones introduces stories of barriers, boundaries and transitions from around the world. 
Lucy Ash visits the first of the French government's new 'deradicalisation' centres, wondering who will end up inside it and how it might change them; Joe Miller hears how the small town of McAllen, TX, on the US-Mexico border, is dealing with an influx of Central American women and child migrants arriving on foot; Olivia Crellin spends some time with a mould-breaking family in Ecuador, where both parents are transgender and campaign for trans recognition; and John Murphy sees the human cost of Iraq's fight against IS at the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf - with its facilities for wash and burying the dead and giving succour to the bereaved. 

Photo: A picture taken on September 13, 2016 in Beaumont-en-Veron shows a part of Pontourny, which  recently reopened as France's first Centre for Prevention, Integration and Citizenship - nicknamed a "deradicalisation" facility (GUILLAUME SOUVANT/AFP/Getty Images)

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