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Published in: openSecurityTrapped by borders, a global flotsam and jetsam
They arrive nameless and unnumbered by land or sea but ever-more unregulated migrants across the globe are falling...
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Published in: openSecurityNo limits to brutality: deaths at the Greece-Turkey borders
People who fetch up at the borders between Greece and Turkey are treated as if they were less than human, in...
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Published in: openSecurityAzerbaijan challenges Europe's human-rights mettle
As Azerbaijan takes up the six-month chair of the Council of Europe, the deteriorating human-rights situation in the...
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Published in: openSecurityRacism: troubling truths
Fighting racism in Europe is not easy when Europe has two hands tied behind its back—debilitated by neo-liberal...
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Published in: openSecurityUkraine: what next?
There was a way out of the Ukraine crisis this week, through dialogue and accommodation. But the regime, backed by...
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Published in: openSecurityHow was he to know? The cracking of the Ukraine regime
Ukraine’s parliament has abandoned the law to curb public protests only recently introduced and the prime minister...
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Published in: openSecurityUndocumented migrants: time to change the European discourse
Most undocumented migrants in Europe are not products of irregular entry and humanitarian crises such as that at...
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Published in: 50.50Deconstructing detention in Britain
Immigration detention and borders are cultural and historical constructions which criminalise and traumatise...
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Published in: 50.50UKIP on the march in Britain
The success of the UK Independence Party in local elections indicates a lack of trust in mainstream politicians on...
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Published in: Shine A LightUK immigration control: children in extreme distress
Alarming numbers of parents are being separated from their children indefinitely in the UK for the purposes of...
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Published in: Shine A LightIs there an alternative to locking up migrants in the UK?
If detention is a tool of war on irregular migration, then the damage on both sides is severe. But this war is not...
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Published in: 50.50Detention and human rights in the UK: maintaining the presumption of liberty
Rigorous reviews by a genuinely independent panel could be a significant step away from the routine long-term...
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Published in: 50.50On the streets in Spain: not only the homeless
The monarchy, the political and economic systems, even the judiciary and the church appear to be failing the people...
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Published in: 50.50Is migration studies failing to defend migrant rights?
With more than 3,000 post graduate students studying migration in Europe each year, a more holistic approach to...
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Published in: openSecurityThe end of “normalization“?
For the first time in its history, Germany has abandoned its allies by abstaining from the vote on Resolution 1973....
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Published in: HomeRethinking Euro-Med policies in the light of the Arab Spring
The uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East have swept away decade-old dictators, but not their regimes....
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Published in: HomeEU disaster response: too little, too late?
We must not allow the development of the EU’s new External Action Service to succumb to short-termism, argues Erik Brattberg
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Published in: HomeUkraine: the immobile state
The electoral defeat of the figureheads of the “orange revolution” of 2004 raises profound questions over Ukraine’s...
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Published in: oDREU and Russia: an Eastern Partnership Muddling on?
Moscow’s attitude towards the EU fluctuates. There are deep-seated doubts that the EU is attempting to undermine...