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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05.07.2022 , in ((Politics))
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Frowin Rausis and Konstantin Kreibich
The UK’s ‘New Plan for Immigration’ allows the government to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, reflecting the latest aspiration to externalize refugee protection. But Britain’s attempt to externalize refugee protection is by no means a new idea. Countries worldwide have toyed with it for years – and failed consistently. In
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01.07.2022 , in ((Reflexive Migration Studies))
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Christine Lang
Reflexive approaches in migration studies have revealed the problems of traditional constructions of the objects of migration research. Much less attention has been paid to the subjects doing the research and the mechanisms that prevent the perspectives of scholars with their own ‘migranticization’ experiences to be adequately represented in knowledge
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