Racial Bureaucracy Encountered by Foreign Students from Ukraine

01.09.2022 , in ((Europe on the Brink)) , ((No Comments))
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International student refugees – students from countries outside the EU who were studying in Ukraine at the time when the war broke out,  fled the same war as Ukrainian citizens. On arrival in Germany, however, they encountered differential treatment compared to Ukrainian refugees. Indeed, these third-country nationals have not been ...

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Accorder le statut de pays candidat à l’Ukraine: plus qu’un geste symbolique

18.08.2022 , in ((Europe on the Brink)) , ((No Comments))

La décision d’accorder le statut de candidat à l’UE à l’Ukraine a certainement une portée symbolique, mais elle entraine néanmoins des implications réelles et profondes au niveau d’aide financière et structurelle. En changeant les règles du jeu suivies depuis la chute du mur de Berlin dans le processus d’octroi de ...

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Misperceptions Drive Immigration Politics and Undermine Democracy

12.07.2022 , in ((Politics)) , ((No Comments))
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Many people hold deep-seated misperceptions about immigration, painting its nature, effects, and governance in excessively dark colors. Rooted in concerns about out-group threats, these mistaken beliefs are often hard to correct as people are reluctant to accept contradictory information. This exacerbates polarization, undermines the deliberative tenets of pluralist discourse, and ...

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