Politics
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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Qatar is basking in the global spotlight as the host of the 2022 World Cup. Less prominently, it is the latest country to introduce an asylum law. Qatar’s new-found status as a global host, of football and of asylum seekers, serves to showcase the country, and boost its global reputation. ...
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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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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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