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Tag Archives: immigration
Feb 5 2016
Modern slavery? The UK visa system and the exploitation of migrant domestic workers
Comments Off on Modern slavery? The UK visa system and the exploitation of migrant domestic workersBy Virginia Mantouvalou It might be hard to believe that a domestic worker – or anyone – is currently forced to sleep on a bathroom floor or is locked up in a house. Yet such experiences are very real for … Continue reading
Posted by: February 5, 2016
Tagged with: immigration, migrants, UK
Jan 6 2016
To be, or not to be: Europe under siege
Comments Off on To be, or not to be: Europe under siegeBy David Held and Kyle McNally It has been a tough year for Europe. Greece, mass migration and terrorism are among the many factors which have unsettled Europe in a profound way. When the EU is seen to stutter and … Continue reading
Posted by: January 6, 2016
Tagged with: Crisis, EU, Euro crisis, European identity, European Public Sphere, Euroscepticism, immigration, refugees, UKIP
Oct 16 2015
Why the EU gets in the way of refugee solidarity
1 CommentBy Gregor Noll Can the migration across the Mediterranean really be considered a security threat? The European Council, the Council of Ministers and implicitly also the Parliament are dealing with the flight over the Mediterranean from a narrowly protectionist perspective. … Continue reading
Posted by: October 16, 2015
Tagged with: immigration, Solidarity
Apr 24 2015
On the Borderlands of Humanity
3 CommentsBy Henry Radice The current crisis in the Mediterranean reminds us of what should be an obvious truth, but is too frequently forgotten: the European Union (EU) is a humanitarian space or it is nothing. If there are any criteria according … Continue reading
Posted by: April 24, 2015
Tagged with: asylum, frontex, humanitarian space, humanitarianism, immigration, mare nostrum, migration, refugees
Jan 20 2015
Europe’s Future and Jihad
5 CommentsBy Roberto Orsi Recent events in Paris have been commented upon by political leaders and public intellectuals alike with the recurring argument that France will emerge stronger from this incident. Countless other commentators have repeated that the ideas of an … Continue reading
Posted by: January 20, 2015
Tagged with: Charlie Hebdo, Crisis, Decline of Europe, demography of Europe, immigration, Islam, Jihad
Jan 9 2015
The challenge of responding to extreme political views: Germany struggles to address Pegida’s anti-Islam protests
1 CommentBy Stefan Bauchowitz Unlike European countries in times of the financial crisis, Germany’s economic success meant that it largely avoided debates on closing off countries against a “tide of immigrants”, and populism was largely confined to opposition to bailouts in … Continue reading
Posted by: January 9, 2015
Tagged with: immigration, Nationalism, Pegida, populism
Jan 8 2015
Pegida shouldn’t be dismissed that easily
3 CommentsBy Alessio Colonnelli President Joachim Gauck and PM Angela Merkel have a point in cautioning the German public that Pegida (a German acronym standing for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) could normalize racism. Back in December Gauck … Continue reading
Posted by: January 8, 2015
Tagged with: European identity, immigration, Islam, Pegida
Oct 31 2014
EU Membership and the Immigration ‘Problem’ – Fact and fiction in British public discourse
6 CommentsBy Max Hänska As David Cameron attempt to be more royalist than the king, ratcheting up his eurosceptic and anti-immigration rhetoric in an attempt to outgun Nigel Farage, it is obvious that public discourse and popular sentiment are turning sour on migration and membership of the European Union. But what explains the ascent of immigration and the EU as … Continue reading
Posted by: October 31, 2014
Tagged with: David Cameron, immigration, Nigel Farage
Aug 28 2014
The End of Tolerance and the New Populism
4 CommentsBy Marina Prentoulis and Lasse Thomassen Reflections on the 2014 local and European election results have heavily stressed the rise of the populist far right. Clearly they have emerged as a leading political force at home and abroad, but this … Continue reading
Posted by: August 28, 2014
Tagged with: alterity, far-right, immigration, left wing politics, Marxism, othering, populism, tolerance, UKIP
Aug 19 2014
In Greece, They Shoot Immigrants, Don’t They?
1 CommentBy Maria Kyriakidou It was April of 2013, when Greece and the international press were shocked by the news that about thirty migrant workers were shot by the supervisors of the strawberry fields where they had been working in Manolada, … Continue reading
Posted by: August 19, 2014
Tagged with: Golden Dawn, Greece, human rights, immigration, Manolada, migrants, strawberries, Zeus Xenios