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The European Union is attempting to portray eastern European countries as racists infringing upon the human rights of refugees. But it’s the EU itself that’s primarily to blame for the refugee crisis.
European leaders expressed solidarity with people trapped in Kabul with no reference to the people trapped in makeshift camps on its periphery.
What parallel can be drawn between the Schengen countries’ management of the migrant crisis in 2015 and their response to the current health epidemic?
The health crisis is pushing governments to try to control the movement of people, but migrants continue to arrive in EU reception centres, which are currently experiencing a crisis of tragic proportions.
The Aegean has long been a place of overlapping migration. Now it is facing a new crisis.
The 2015 reception crisis had a profound impact on civil society in Europe. A significant set of attitudes and practices emerged that give a sense of what political participation means today.
In the past decade the EU has been struck by a series of crises that have proven that it is far more vulnerable than previously imagined.
Fleeing economic collapse, around 2.3 million Venezuelans have left the country over the past few years.
Since 2000, 8.8 million Brazilians have been displaced by disaster, development and crime, new data shows. Now Venezuelan migrants are pouring into the country. Still, Brazil has no real refugee plan.
Walking, gardening and cycling can all help relieve anxiety and help asylum seekers become a part of the local community.
We can all play a direct role.
Should the EU be giving money to repressive regimes to stop the flow of migrants?
A more intimate connection with the details of migrants crossing the Mediterranean can happen through art.
A military option will be a lucrative one for smugglers.
In reelection bid, Merkel’s not just up against a xenophobic, nationalist party in Germany. In the wake of Trump’s election, liberal democracies around the world hope she’ll defend them, too.
Smugglers who transport migrants and refugees into the EU are both heroes and villains.
The French and British governments have prioritised security over humanity for refugees in the Calais Jungle.
As the camp for migrants and refugees outside Calais is dismantled, two academics from either side of the Channel look at what will happen next.
After the Hungarian referendum, a new spectre is haunting the EU: Victor Orban.
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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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Research Professor, Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), United Nations University
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Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies, University of Glasgow
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Research Fellow, Coventry University
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Professor of International Politics, University of Warwick
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
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Assistant Professor in Geography, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Business Ethics, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow in Migration, Identity and Belonging, University of Birmingham
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Ph.D. Candidate, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Professor of Social Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Cultural and Political Sociologist, Université de Liège
