The children of Aleppo have a few questions for the U.S. presidential candidates, one of whom who will assume responsibility this January for the United States’ role in stopping the carnage in Syria that has already claimed nearly half a million lives.

Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, says many Europeans' fear of refugees boils down to the idea of the "precariat" - people whose lives are marked by precariousness, anxiety and fear. As more EU countries raise walls and the backlash against foreigners grows, Al Jazeera spoke to the Polish sociologist about why people fear refugees. Bauman believes that in this era of global upheaval and movement, seeing people who have lost everything reminds u