People in Brussels are led to believe that there is a huge influx of asylum-seekers. Yes and no. The truth is much harder to tell. Many have ended up in the street and some have even taken the Belgian state to court. Part Two
We begin a three-part account of the experiences of ethnic Albanians seeking asylum. Part One begins in Macedonia, which recently lifted visa restrictions towards Europe
Two decades after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, Balkan countries have a complicated relationship with their Communist past. Two recent events in Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina highlight the complexities of regional identity, and the negative effects of compulsory ethnic identification.
openDemocracy's UK Section, OurKingdom, has published a 350 page Reader on the Winter of Protests that swept into British politics in November last year. They began as a student opposition to the tripling of fees for university education but immediately escalated, because of a much wider protest a
Italy has been raising a generation of women to think that mini-skirts, tank tops and swimsuits, and a chance to shake their bottoms on national TV, are the key to success.
The Reader on the Winter Protests in Britain is now up! Freed download or scan its 350 pages
The Oxford University 'Congregation', the University's sovereign body which includes all permanent academic faculty, met in the Sheldonian theatre on 8 February to debate whether it
Despite Cameron's talk of 'the failure of multiculturalism', the Coalition are abandoning a British tradition of culturally-sensitive integration. Instead, they are adopting a state multiculturalism that is segregationist and poses a grave threat to minority communities.
That the guardians of women's virtue should present a direct threat to it, encapsulates the essential paradox of popular opinion about the Taliban movement in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, says Sana Haroon.
The head of Oxford's student union addresses the faculty
Why the UK's higher education policy is topsy-turvey
The second in OK's series of the speeches from Oxford University's debate on cuts, fees and higher education
