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During a crisis, like the COVID-19 pandemic, there seems to be an instinctive turn towards sanctuary and roots. In 2020, repatriation flights and exceptions from travel restrictions allowed particular categories of travelers to return home. But our ideas about sanctuary are also restrictive, implicitly leaning on often racialized assumptions about
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Migration policies restricting the entry of ‘foreigners’ to the UK have historically been hailed by the right wing, as protecting both the financial and social security of its citizens, in addition to protecting the cultural heritage of the nation-state. When critiquing these policies, the left wing has had a tendency
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According to UNHCR, more than 6.3 million people have left Ukraine since 24 February 2022. Most of them have arrived in the EU (3.4 million in Poland alone), but also over 850’434 in Russia. The tragedy of the Ukrainian citizens forced to move and those forced to continue living in
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Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has requested that the country be allowed to join the European Union as a result of Russia’s invasion. But is there sufficient political support across Europe for Ukraine to be given a viable path to EU membership? On 28 February, four days into the Russian invasion
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It is at best inconvenient to talk about multicultural citizenship in France; the country`s official republican conception of citizenship considers its citizens without cultural, ethnic, racial and religious differences. Despite this, Paris warmly welcomed at least three generations of scholars from all around the world working on multiculturalism at a ...
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