01.09.2022 , in ((Europe on the Brink))
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Fazila Bhimji and Salina Momade
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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23.08.2022 , in ((Europe on the Brink))
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Kamila Fiałkowska
It has been a year since the humanitarian crisis began on the Polish-Belarussian border, where a group of Afghan refugees was trapped. After spending several days there, the refugees were pushed back to the Belarusian side by the Polish border guards. Since then, numerous reports of violence towards refugees, but
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18.08.2022 , in ((Europe on the Brink))
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Marie-Eve Bélanger
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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19.07.2022 , in ((Europe on the Brink))
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Dario Mazzola
In recent times, within Europe, the massive inflow of asylum seekers is as unprecedented as the openness with which the Ukrainian ones are being welcomed. While structural racism is certainly at play, political interests and alignments between domestic, political ideologies and international relations also have a prominent role in the
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12.07.2022 , in ((Politics))
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Marco Bitschnau and Philipp Lutz
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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