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Published in: HomeTurkey and refugee rights: the missing link
Europe's deal with Turkey to solve its refugee crisis has little regard for the status of families like those of...
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Published in: HomeMigration: beyond "what people think"
A skewed debate on immigration has lost touch with reality and become fuel for fear, anxiety and prejudice. Never...
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Published in: openSecuritySecuritisation not the response to deaths at sea
The European Union has responded to the humanitarian crisis presented by refugee deaths in the Mediterranean—but...
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Published in: openSecurityCrisis in the Mediterranean: Europe must change course
As leaders of European Union member states prepare to meet to discuss the Mediterranean refugee crisis, the Council...
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Published in: openSecurityWhat the EU must do now to halt this tragedy on its shores
There are answers to the Mediterranean migrant-deaths crisis. They just require the European Union, whose foreign...
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Published in: 50.50Lampedusa: Never again
The terrible migrant deaths off the Italian island have evoked horror across the continent. In a small camp in...
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Published in: openSecurityEurope's war on migrants
The unending series of mass drownings in the Mediterranean of migrants and refugees are not unfortunate tragedies:...
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Published in: 50.50The new Sangatte: rights pushed out of sight
In the context of escalating police violence and local racism, the new day centre for migrants in Calais, France is...
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Published in: openSecurityMigrants in the Mediterranean: mourning deaths, not saving lives
For as long as the humanitarian impulse to rescue the desperate and the destitute is trumped by Europe’s focus on...
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Published in: openSecurityScapegoats for an insecure Europe
The crisis facing Europe could be perceived as a product of conflicting class interests in what Keynes called the...
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Published in: openSecurityEastern Ukraine: the humanity behind the headlines
The government in Kyiv, aid organisations and the international community must work together to address the...
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Published in: openSecurityThe European Kurds rallying to fight IS
With Kurds in Iraq and Syria under attack from the Islamic State, many young Kurds in Europe have been joining...
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Published in: 50.50Immigration detention: a most un-British phenomenon
Strict prohibitions against arbitrary detention are a central element in any system that celebrates liberty. It is...
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Published in: openSecurityThe poverty of European migration policy
Policy on migration in Europe bears more relationship to ideology than evidence. And humanity is sorely lacking.
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Published in: openSecurityA year after Lampedusa: what has changed?
Twelve months ago, Europe’s conscience was pricked by the sight of the bodies of hundreds of migrants shipwrecked at...
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Published in: openSecurityLibya: the migrant trap
The discovery by the Italian navy of 30 bodies in a fishing boat at the weekend highlights the deadly trail of...
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Published in: openSecurityTip of the iceberg: European migration policy in Greece and the Euro-elections
Many people will be affected by the results of the Euro-elections in Greece and across the continent—including those...
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Published in: openSecurityNot polished enough! Have Swedes had enough of the far right?
In an increasingly unequal Sweden, the far right has been able to capitalise on growing insecurity for its...
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Published in: openSecuritySyrian refugees in Turkey: defusing the powder-keg
In sharp contrast to wider Europe, Turkey has taken in many refugees from the Syrian civil war—but its hospitality...
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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...