società civile
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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Since 2015, the study of refugee inclusion has become a booming business. However, research and policies are still quite disconnected from refugees’ lives. Reflective infrastructures can help refugees, other societal actors, and researchers collaborate on knowledge co-creation projects that address refugees’ and migrants’ real-life challenges and question taken-for-granted assumptions. Spaces
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The forced displacement from bordering Ukraine towards Hungary seems to have all but evaporated a decade-long effort to build a fortress of Hungary by its ruling Fidesz party. How is this U-turn in refugee reception to be understood? Due to the government’s strong ethnopopulism and its narrative of ethnic inclusiveness,
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Ältere Migrant*innen verstärken im Alter häufig ihre transnationalen Bezüge. Sie pendeln zwischen Herkunfts- und Aufnahmeland oder leisten finanzielle Unterstützung über Landesgrenzen hinweg. Dies ist mit Chancen und Herausforderungen für die Soziale Arbeit verbunden. Es stellt sich daher die Frage, mit welchen Facetten von Transnationalität die Sozialarbeitenden konfrontiert sind und wie
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On 24 February 2022 we woke up in a new world. Ukraine has since had to face a war of aggression on several fronts. From this crisis, many troubling questions arise related to European security, refugee protection, energy sustainability as well as the consequences of such a military conflict. Our
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