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Racializing and Oppressive Practices at the Eastern Border of Poland

Kamila Fiałkowska — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 07:30:07 +0000

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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Accorder le statut de pays candidat à l’Ukraine: plus qu’un geste symbolique

Marie-Eve Bélanger — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 11:30:20 +0000

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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Guilty Generosity?

Etienne Piguet — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 07:30:57 +0000

An argument that has been circulating widely over the recent days is that opening up to the victims of the war in Ukraine has allegedly revealed a racist attitude of closure toward Syrian, Afghan, and Yemeni refugees. Many propagators of this idea are very well-meaning. They want to push Europe

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Générosité coupable ?

Etienne Piguet — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 07:30:42 +0000

L’argument selon lequel l’ouverture aux victimes de la guerre en Ukraine serait révélatrice d’une fermeture raciste vis-à-vis des réfugiés syriens, afghans ou yéménites a connu une large diffusion ces derniers jours. Beaucoup de ses propagateurs sont pleins de bonnes intentions. Ils souhaitent pousser l’Europe à plus de générosité et prennent

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The Ukrainian Exodus Forces Europe to React

Gianni D’Amato — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 13:00:58 +0000

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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Le défi de la légitimité : Communiquer sur la restriction de la mobilité pendant la pandémie

Marie-Eve Bélanger — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 08:30:18 +0000

Face à la pandémie de COVID-19, les gouvernements du monde entier ont réagi en imposant des restrictions incisives de la mobilité des personnes. Dans des sociétés libérales profondément interdépendantes, ces restrictions de mobilité ont un coût social et économique important. L’incapacité à justifier et à légitimer ces restrictions incisives des libertés

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Making Responsibility-Sharing Operational: Comparing Asylum and Climate Governance

Philipp Lutz — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 07:30:15 +0000

International law demands that refugees obtain humanitarian protection in a safe country. However, which country should be responsible for which refugee remains a contested and unresolved question of international asylum governance – in particular in the event of refugee emergencies. Sharing the common responsibility of humanitarian protection is motivated by

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Refugees in Exile in Berlin: Finding Informal Means to Survive

Fazila Bhimji — Wed, 19 May 2021 07:30:00 +0000

Homeless refugees in Berlin face systemic inequalities. Their support network, which consists of German citizens and other refugees, tries to challenge these conditions by assisting the homeless in accessing private and public shelters informally. It seems relevant, therefore, to look at how informal systems can help undo some of the

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Exceptional Uncertainty: Early-Career Anthropologists in the Corona Pandemic

Minh Nguyen — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 08:30:26 +0000

The Covid-19 pandemic has proven to significantly affect the current state of life and work of early-career fieldworkers and ethnographers, as they have had to manage the subsequent restrictions imposed on their fieldwork. Based on discussion at the Research Infrastructures and Emotional Challenges workshop, we highlight the challenges faced by

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Fading Career Prospects of Mobility Researchers “Stuck” in Immobility?

Kerstin Martel — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 08:30:26 +0000

What happens when you are researching a topic that is suddenly suspended and prone to alter fundamentally in the future? How are the early career prospects of mobility researchers and their sense of purpose when getting “stuck” and isolated in an unfamiliar place? While the “new normal” and its implications

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