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The attacks in Paris are putting refugees in the crosshairs, yet it’s the integration of these and past migrants that are key to the security of Europe.
The film transcends its feelgood marketing campaign to contribute to current debates around charity and its practical implications.
Opponents to migration have been waiting for an opportunity to close borders. But that won’t stop disillusioned people turning against their countries.
The Malta summit between the EU and Africa solves the symptoms of migration but fails to tackle the causes.
A €1.8bn trust fund is on offer if only African countries will take the problem away.
Most evidence shows that climate change is caused by humans and immigration is good for the economy. So why do many of us reject these notions anyway?
Today’s refugee crisis is not just about the movement of people. It is also about the human immobility that is baked into contemporary laws and politics. What, then, of the code of hospitality?
Baddawi camp has been host to Palestinian refugees for years. Now Syrians fleeing their homeland are joining them, how is everyone coping?
Refugees are still flocking to Lesvos in their thousands – and as long as the water offers more hope than the land, people will continue to die.
Turkey is to take in more refugees in exchange for relaxed visa rules – but what’s the real cost?
Tensions between the two groups have hit breaking point in Turkey – but both have large diaspora communities.
Afghan, Syrian and Eritrean refugees keep arriving on Europe’s shores, reputedly at an increasing rate. They attempt to traverse the Mediterranean by land and sea, presumably hastened by Putin’s bombing…
Sahota’s Booker shortlisted novel is acutely intelligent and very of the moment. It may well take the prize.
Berlin recently agreed to curb the number of migrants it welcomed after a backlash against Angela Merkel’s suspension of EU rules limiting numbers. It followed previous scenes of crowds welcoming new arrivals…
There’s an understandable impulse to treat all refugees the same regardless of religious identity. But is that actually helpful?
Too long stigmatised as Europe’s outsiders, the people of Serbia are seizing an opportunity to change their country’s image.
By refusing to take in Syrian refugees, the Gulf States’ governments prove they don’t care much about the humanitarian crisis on their doorstep.
Away from the chaos of Europe’s borders, refugees are camped out in vast settlements close to their home countries and where restrictions on entrepreneurship are wasting talent and energy.
The Gulf’s most powerful state has been catching flack for its policy on Syrian refugees (or lack of same). What chance is there of a change?
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Research Professor, Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), United Nations University
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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
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Professor of International Politics, University of Warwick
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Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Law, University of Essex
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Professor of Business Ethics, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Reader in Sociology, City, University of London
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Professor of Transnational Studies and Marketing & Director of Regent's Centre for Transnational Studies, Regent's University London
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PhD Candidate in Management, Columbia University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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