Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has caught referendum fever. He is giving his public a vote on refugee policy in what is being seen as a two-fingered salute to the EU.
Living in limbo: children at the Qab Elias Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon.
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At what point is the movement of people away from their land of origin called a diaspora? A sociologist explores what the term has meant in the past, and why that might soon change.
Refugees protest in central Athens at evictions of squats in Thessaloniki.
Orestis Panagiotou/EPA
Can you visualize any number greater than 100? Migration experts explain why thinking about migrants en masse makes it difficult to address the nuances of each group’s unique challenges.
Media at the scene of mall shooting in Munich.
REUTERS/Michael Dalder
A German culture scholar looks at how rising fear of terror and a week of violence has affected German media and politics. Will Germany’s open refugee policies last?
In two weeks, Brits will cast a vote that could change the future of the European Union. A UCLA expert explores the continent’s greatest threats to unity.
Refugees try to warm themselves with a fire at a refugee camp at the border between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham