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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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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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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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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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In the first stages of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, stories of Russian soldiers turning themselves in and becoming prisoners of war surfaced. What motivated these Russian soldiers to surrender to the Ukrainian army, even initially, when there was still limited fighting between the two parties? And how could their
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